Tears of the naked ghost

Episode one

I watched as the whole villagers gang up against my mother over the death of my father, they asked my mother to drinks from the water used to bath my father's dead body in order to proved that she is innocent, my mother is from another state, another tribe with different tradition who got married to my father, growing up i can see how much my mother and my father loved each other, their love makes my step mother jealous most of the time that she always pick fight with my mother, my step mother is from same village with my dad, the villagers cherish and valued her more than my mum because she is their own, but that doesn't bothered my mum, she married for loved and I can see it written all over her face each time she is with my father, tears drops from my eyes seeing how my lovely mother was being humiliated, me and my only sister tried everything to makes the villagers reason with us but to no avail, as the tradition demands, any woman being accused of killing her husband must drinks from the water used in bathing the body of her husband, failure to do so, the woman will be drag round the village completely naked before being banished from the village, deep in our mind, we knew our mother was innocent but how can she drinks the water used to bath someone that has been dead for days, even the king insist that my mother must do as the tradition demands,my mother refused and was drag round the village naked, after she has been humiliated, the king banished her from the village and gave her three days to packed from the village and never returned again, my mother passed away the night after she walked round the village naked

© Moses kanjoya