Drop By Drop Poem by Kamarudeen Mustapha

Drop by drop
The pool brims
Step by step
Great distance is made

One, two, three, four
The counting rises
Even to millions
Tick tick tock
A minute runs
To an eternity

Drop by drop
Leap by leap
Every great thing
Has its genesis
In bits and commonplace

A great anthill
Was once
A speck of dust
A voluminous text
Began with a letter

Drop by drop
The maestro
Calling the shots
Was once
A microscope of semen

Every landmark
Has its beginning
In triviality

Drop by drop
Step by step
Tick tick tock
Life takes
Its eternal course



(C) Kamarudeen Mustapha (Prince Dankeketa)