The Revenge against the Drunken Master

Once upon a time in Sikaman, the land of abundance, a peaceful kindhearted king died mysteriously.

Some loyal courtiers of the departed king who adored him as a hero, and worshipped him as idolised saint; pointed accusing finger on his second-in-command, suspecting this villainous deputy to have diabolically suffocated and caused a cold murder of his superior.

As justifiably expected, the bereaved loyalists hatched a plan to avenge the death of their idol King, Nana Asomdwie.

It then came to pass that the deputy, through usury was thrust upon the throne of his slain boss.

The revenge party set to work, and to satisfy their suspicion of the true murderer, they consorted a deity of the Macabre, summoning the spirit of the dead.

It was revealed that the culprit still lives unremorsefully in the palace of the revered gone king.

No crime goes on without ramifications, even if it will take ages to come. It was rumoured that the usurper king has taken to drunkenness as a result of having his sleeps disturbed, and hounded to a rude awakening in his dreams by the wandering spirit of the murdered king.

With a soul so beaten down and defiled by alcohol, the murderer tyrant was thrown into an abase living of lust and uneasy partying.

Already, the fiendish illegitimate occupant of the throne had broken his marriage vows of remaining faithful to one wife, and surrounded himself with promiscuous mistresses; who unmeritoriously exchanged their womanly qualities for a fat purse from the state's vaults, plunging Sikaman into a total darkness of bottomless bankruptcy.

It was through one of this many lascivious creatures was the drunken Master baited and given a sweet vengeance.

The murdered king had a faithful confidante in "Comrade A-Who", an incensed protégé who will later mastermind the vengeance on the Drunken Master.

In this attempt, Comrade A-Who befriended the Drunken Master and in bad faith counselled him to build an inn for a Harlem, a cult of bevy of ladies for superfluous orgies and debauchery in the palace's underground chambers.

Evil thoughts gain admittance in the minds of evildoers quickly. The Drunken Master did not only assent to the malicious proposal of the dissembling Comrade A-who, but he added an icing on it by breaking ranks with the kingmakers and unilaterally chose a liberal and irresolute woman to deputise him in the palace.

For so doing, the presence of this female deputy who was christened Nanny; the palace was set to be choked up with riotous partying female feasters, at the cost of the state.

At one of these many Balls or nightly parties, three of the well dressed ladies had glasses of rich wines doctored with deadly poison in an anticipation of the Drunken Master taking from them and gulp down.

When the plot yields its result, Nanny will replace the Drunken Master as the first woman king of Sikaman.

Comrade A-Who in preparation for the sudden demise of the Drunken Master penned down the following appellation:

The throne bound to be vacant
As it did happen in the past, so it could happen again

Death knows not a foe or a friend
The murderer must prepare his throat for the knife one day

O' death, by fair or foul means
lay your icy hands on those who breach your laws.

The Drunken Master's death will serve as a deterrent to usurpers who rise to power through inordinate means.

Let those with ears hear this and read meanings into it.

By Charles Yeboah (Sir Lord)
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