Letter to God: Lord, it look leh the chicken has come home to roast

Dear Father,

Hmm, I say it na easy. It look leh the chickent na come home to roast oo. They say the Papy na start flexing him muscles small, small. But they say da na small chakala he press oo.

They say the Papy look at the short lawyer the orlor day and told the man, I want you to forget about being Paramount Chief at the Traditional Council because that place for my son.

You say whatin?

Oh, da fire! You na hear nothing yet. You think the Papy coming be playing around here? He told the man, to find something else to do, but he mon consider him request.

My son, you want tell me the Papy na sit down good, good yea, he na start fighting already?

Oh, yor think becus yor see the man walking slow, slow like da he na geh heart ehn. But newsflash: That Papy geh heart, you na here easy water run deep? Go ask my brother “Man Can’t Talk All” and him father.

So, what the short lawyer told him na?

Aah, Father, da it you asking slow leh da. The man told him plain no!

You say whatin?

Father, I say, the man said plain no. At least da wah the chey, chey poly them told me. Bor you, yor self ya, you na know we the short people our temper right to our figure tip ehn.

Bor, who will do that kina thing self. You na spend all yor money and time practicing whole month, time for the game then somebody from yor opposite camp say, you mon na play becus he wan him son to take the glory-awa. The Papy will balance, he jus starting. He na even know who him playing with sef.

Anyway, leh talk so and talk so too na, what the short man too go to the Papy him play. He na know if the Papy na talk this one here, him people will say him be betrayer?

Ehn han, da somer the thing there too my son.

The man suppose to wait when he fini winning na then he go speak to the Papy. Bor, him too, him na do so that him also cause him own problem.

Hmm, bor the way that short lawyer too leh power and know how to play, the Papy mon fight hard oo, becus the way him na throw the first punch in that brabee eye, he mon jus know say the man will soon start fighting back.

Bor, the Papy too ya. If you na wan see the man, you couldn’t jus tell him for him na to waste him time, aye mehn. Da how power bisney looking?