Lekan Meets Aminat Poem by Olalekan Ololade Sobande

This simple but subtle poem is one of the frequently anthologised poems of Sobande Olalekan. The poems in subsection of Olalekan's collection deal mainly with love and ''lekan meets Aminat'' particularly captures the amount of certainly and assurance when love is naturally given and accepted.
This particular poem builds up to a climax of expectation which is then shattered. But what is most reaveling is the naivety and the implied self-mockery of the speakers expressed through the cliché with which he cloths his expectations. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the poem is its title.