L’ALE EREBE
L’ale erebe, I can see through life’s window pane,
I see the moon reflecting the tall spirits of a willow plain.
Though no rhythm of **Awilo is playing,
The feeling is so deep like a widow’s pain.
The moon is complete, but l’ale erebe, it appears in half.
On erebe night, the mood is about, seeking something to have.
The spirits seek mates on the souls’ behalf.
The erebe tradition will not stop until all half souls hook other halves.
(To this end, I do not know if erebe will ever end).
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L’aleerebe, beautiful faces come from beautiful places of the earth for the most beautiful act of finding a beauty-full heart with which to do the most amazing art of erebe night—loving.
The amazing grace of erebe night is to be able to get an amazing gaze of an amazing soul, and to lose the grace of such a gaze will be something grave that may bring disgrace. The grace of the night is to get hooked and stay hooked.
L’aleerebe, the night will end and the act with it but many hearts will continue the erebe art in the light of day while some few hearts will remain in the darkness of ignorance of the night even in daylight.
The ‘Act’ of erebe night is to seek and the ‘Art’ is to love. The ‘many’ hearts seek to love but the ‘few’ hearts love to seek and they will probably always continue to seek and not find because seeking is their love but love is not their seeking—this is what makes the erebe difference.
*l’ale erebe: Yoruba sentence meaning ‘On the night of Erebe’. Erebe is a festival of social gathering.
** Awilo is a kind of African music.