Any Way She Comes Poem by TUNDE DADA

She comes in any day
She comes at any night
She comes in any way
She comes at any time
All she does is come
She comes again, again and again.

She had come as disobedience
And I fell like Adam,
and as Eve and as Jonah

She had come as money
And I fell like Annanias
and as Saphirra

She had come as wine
And I fell like Noah in his tent

She had come as bread
And I fell like Esau for a morsel

She had come as a wwoman
And I fell like Samson,
and as well as David

She had come as power
And I fell like Nebuchadnezzar
and as Herod

She had come as envy
And I fell like Cain

She had come as anger
And I fell like Moses

She had come as unbelieve
And I fell like Serah

She had come as betrayal
And I fell like Judas

She had come as denial
And I fell like PPeter

Come these days again and again,
I shall not fall but stand like Mount Zion
Come as a woman,
I shall stand like Joseph

Come as power,
I shall stand like Solomon

Come as denial,
I shall stand like Shadrach
and as Meshach and as Abednego

Come as disobedience
I shall stand like Samuel

Come as unbelieve,
I shall stand like Abraham

Come as betrayal
I shall stand likeJonathan

Above all, come as bread and as anger,
I shall stand like the lamb
Oh, temptation!


An excerpt from Echoes at the Crack of Dawn
By Tunde Dada