Personal writing

Eyo Prays

The Prayer of a Child: Eyo meets with Alayo

Tai Ajayi

Epigraph

Guide us on the straight path,
the path of those who have received your grace;
not the path of those who have brought down wrath, nor of those who wander astray (Al-Fathia)

I understand Alayo as a simple, sheer human spirit that is never satisfied because it continues to give more to life

Descend, O Spirit
Descend, O Holy Spirit
Lord bless us
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

The sign of the prayer

It is almost normal for every child who grew around me to think that any time we clasped two hands in front of our hearts; it meant it was about time to pray. In Rosary meetings I attended with my friends when I was seven, in our infantile voices we passionately