A WALK TO REMEMBER 5K CHALLENGE WINNER -NAFIU TANKO

A walk to remember

Jane woke-up early in the morning for a walk on a lonely road around her neighborhood. She walked a couple of blocks from her home as she came across a park that was unfortunately left open by its careless keepers, She usually visits the park on specific occasions but this particular visit was not planned. As she walked into the park, the whole place was so quiet because it was too early to be at the park at that time, even the park keepers were not present by the time, she was there.

The environment was so full of green plants and beautiful flowers, as the monkeys hung on a tree, playing with one another, and birds on trees sang love songs to their partners on nest, while from a long distance one could hear the flowing water sound rumbling as it moves swiftly away to an unknown course, with the frogs croaking and the crickets crocking, this harmonious combination of sounds made the environment so surreal and peaceful by creating a great sense nature. The morning cold breeze blew gently on Jane’s body as it blew her clothes thou and fro like a piece of cloth, that had been washed and left to dry, on a dry sunny day as the mild wind blew it gently. The cold breeze mixed with the morning dew blew her black coaly hairs, making them look darker, shiny and a bit wet as if she had just applied the cream on them.

Walking into the park, Jane walked directly to her favorite spot in the park which is the animal yard. On her way to the yard, she tripped on a stone which she later came to realize that it wasn’t really a stone, it was a tortoise that had hide in its shell which looked rough and fractured on the surface due to old age and these excruciatingly captured her attention and was very fascinated by its stone-like features because of how time tempered with its shell. Then she heard the sound of the whaling ostriches crying-out in hunger and turned her attention towards it, away from the tortoise. She went to their huge cages and begins to stare at them in amusement for a while by looking at their long necks as she begins to wonder how they were able to stand upright without their necks bending. She was so comfortable that she had to sit on a stack of dead wood to watch the ostrich, not knowing that she was sitting on an ant colony beneath the wood which they found very offensive, making them not take it easy on her but rather retaliate with no mercy by biting her. She had no option but to leave the area immediately in a rush as she ran without any conscience of where she was heading to and at the same time trying to wipe the ants off her body, then she accidentally bashed her head with the bald-wire that was being used to surround the pound were the crocodiles are being kept. This was a place she had never been to in all her previous visit at the park.

When she settled down and got rid of the ants off her body and realizing how lucky she was. Then she heard a sound, one she heard never heard before but this time around the sound seemed clear to her, that it was the sound of a forceful gushing water like that of a dam and she walks towards its direction. When she got there, she found out that her guess was right, it was really a waterfall but was just a small artificial waterfall and it looks so lovely. She went into the water, wetting her entire body from hair to toe like a child playing in the rain during the raining season without the conscience of his parents. Her wet clothe became transparent making it possible to see what she wore under which was a thong panty without wearing any bra to support her fully ripe firm breast as her nipples rose like the penis of newlywed groom. When she was through with the water bath, she took a walk along the pathway were the gushing water normally makes way to the river. As continues walking, she came across the deepest part of the river and the moment she realizes that, she got out of the water because she could not swim and stood by the riverside which was a bit close to the main gate entrance of the park, as she looked passionately at the river flow as it flows gently to an unknown course and deep down she said to herself
“Life flow like this river flows
So also does my river life flows
It comes and goes with a gentle flow
To an unknown course
Only enslaved by days

Left alone with nothing
But my empty dreams
As my conscience seems to fade
My love is vengeance
That never fades”

The sun begins to appear half in the sky with a tangerine like color; the morning dew begins to disappear as if it wasn’t there a couple of hours ago. The sunray glowingly begins to lithe up her face, that was a bit filled with tears halfway down her left cheeks while it was all the way down on the right side, from the eyes to the chin. Then all of a sudden a huge voice from the gate yells “who is that?, what are you doing over there?, if I get you there ehh? ” the moment Jane heard the voice, she stood up in fear but calm facially and had a looked at who was speaking. It was no one but the gate-keeper of the park, who was returning from the morning prayer in a nearby mosque with a tasbaha(counter) in his right hand and a mat gripped below his left arm-pit. The gate-keeper grabbed her in the arms and asked her what she was doing in the park so early with her clothing all wet, but she only stared at him and could not reply his question and begins to cry and said to him “I will yell out a rape alarm on you, if you don’t let me go”, the gatekeeper said to her “me rape you? You are serious”, and begins to interrogate her.

When Jane begins to cry loudly, the gatekeeper stopped interrogating her as he ignites in fear and begged her to stop yelling, as she stood before him confidently with her dirty wet see through like clothe, that was showing half of her naked body. The gatekeeper let her go, as she went away with a smile on her face and stopped a passing by cab, hob in it and went away.

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