Aduke My Jewel Poem by BELLO BIDEMI

"....Dan Dun Din" Aduke Arelewa rolls the talking drum

Dark as an ackee nut, beauty at peak, juicy as plum

Typical African nymph; calabash at standard might

The unique daybreak palm wine at quality height

Perplexation conveys stare at your waist beads jiggle

And those cherries wiggle cease not throw one baffle

Dulcet voice pure placid as early gush of stream

Perfect oofi, well braided shuku my jar filling to brim

At thy bonnie face's smile the hardest heart sets to melt

Thy affection revives as the gentle breeze from west felt

Thy kiss ferries distress fade as the slow solitary ship sail on sea

Thus sing thy pulchritude and sublime the squirrel, warbler and the bee

At the cashew tree, "yes" popped thy lovely lips that night

Ever since, key I mislaid to comporting and reasoning right

My psyche you enchant wholly thou irresistible love

Thus my heart plunges grandly the nippy dew above



Time has got wings; time's a blink

If ever you'll set foot ashore, you put me to think

Studying still? Ten years off you embarked for London

Nothing worse writing me romance with new love Mr Gordon

Heartthrob you love and found there you said at Oxford

Sure these came to be as money and distance I cannot afford

A spell is this? Thy love and affection again i crave

This soberly i beseech Aduke lest i see my grave

Alas! My ebony love's going astray

Grant not this Eledumare! to you i pray

Ten years by, lonely still in horrific hole

Aduke my jewel and life come home make me whole.