Tobi Adebowale

In mid-air
It lies suspended
With potent power
Waiting to serve
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Recall that blazing afternoon
When you and the sun boiled with rage
And for reasons I did not envisage
Our bond was severed that noon
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You got my previous piece
And did not respond
Please respond to this
So my mind can taste peace
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In their veins
flowed the patriotic
blood of ancestral spirits
that laced their hearts
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Shocked
and teary
Swimming in pain
My bulging eyes
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On my exit today
Master
I recall with nostalgia
My first humble step
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Reminiscent of dark days
When ancestors were
Fettered and ferried
Across oceans
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When filled with bread
In their homestead
They send us mails
To invoke our wails
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Like a tongue
Deprived of the teeth’s company
It lay sprawled
Like it could do no wrong
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Concealing their sufferings
With superb acting
People in our bursting city
Go gently about their duties.
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Circled by many dreamy eyes
Seated on raffia mats
Waiting for the voice of wise
Nursing hope in their hearts
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The frenzy of wriggling old waists
The frenetic swerve of nubile dancers
In daring contests
With stunning acrobatic manoeuvres
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He maintained a distance
Even from neighbours
To avoid giving a chance
To lurking creditors
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When it was new
Her faults were few
Her beauty shielded them
And there was no problem
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As time flies by
With each passing day
The ice builds up
And spreads sideways
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From my eyes
Tears flowed freely
While my manacled limbs
Sang of pain
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His passionate calls I refused
Yet He never cesed
His calls to me were songs
Playing on for me to dance
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For long
I wiled in solitude
Till you came along
To change my attitude
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I can’t comprehend it
I thought I was untouchable
But now I am at sea
As to how it came to be
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