I Saw You Dance Poem by Olufayo Ezekiel

I heard their whispers;
The bride-like beads on your neck,
The beads on your ankles,
Those on your waists,
Those on your waist,
Sounding in pride
To the glorious myth of our great land.


I saw you dance;
The day you made the world your stage.
Trampled,ressed, paddled the ground with the swift sounds of your appeasing steps.

Isaw in you;
The towering figure of the black race,
That resides in the ancestral land of our heroes past,
And the fainted part of our forsaken ways of old.

I saw it;
Like the Niger that flows endlessly all seasons,
The ever rhythmic flow of your amusing steps,
And the breathtaking moments of your flip flapping jumps,
That collide with the rendezvous movement of a monkey parading trees in the jungle.

I heard it clear;
The free flowing notes fromyour throat,
The tender tonic tunes of your voice,
That amused and lured me to sleep,
Like the tunes of the elegant minstrels playing reeds.