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Seed buried beneath the soil,
Tend often in anticipated toil;
Yet how plants bud and blossom
Is above my cultivated wisdom.

Though life is a maze and mystery,
I've taken in my hand my destiny
Beholding it with faith's steady eye
Through weather foul and fair.
Fell.

But I've climbed my way
               back
to the summit.
Her presence is smelling
on the
sheet of my being.
Lingering fragrance of unfeigned rosy love.
Zaftig ******* droop . . . ***** becomes
flaccid . . .
dark hair turns grey.
At last too green leaves become yellow, wilt and wither away as life enters into immortality.

Nought abides ever. Not even the diamonds in the sky.
At times I am verily weary to the bone,
Confining my soul in a self-made cocoon
By shutting out the world from my heart
As my mind meanders speedily tween
The hills of despair thru' rueful spleen--
There was a country ere things fell apart.


Pining for the wonder wand of Bro. Jero,
Our hopes have turned to zero--
Hit by the arrow of God--ha, penkelemesi!
Who can now this nation's nemesis remedy?
Acknowledging Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate) and Chinua Achebe--both  of whom august Professors of Literature; chronic critics of mad, mediocre regimes, lack-lustre living and advocates of the small fry--whose master titles are initiated herein.

*Wole Soyinka's: Ibadan: The Penkelemesi Years, and The Trials of Brother Jero

*Chinua Achebe's: Things Fall Apart, and Arrow of God
Walking in the Spirit, copping
a feel
of the flesh.
Birth is by two ways:
labour and lancet.
Nope,--three.
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