- In memory of an angel that God sent to the world to raise me
By Nasiru Oseni
There is no easy way
To cope with an unbearable
Eternal truth
You’ve been gone three years.
And I have become
The gate keeper
With a lingering memory that walks
Ceaselessly inside the mind
And lights up its thought streets
To show the way to a future monument
In remembrance of you
Gone three years
And every day,
A fresh memory walks
The thought streets
of my mind
Probing the unbuilt foundations
Of the future monument
That’s been trapped
In the web of my procrastination
For the past three years
I am still here, mama
Wondering like you why I should be
In a single place like a lost child
With my many unexplored dreams
When my home is somewhere else
Where dreams grow
And the wings of eagles are not cut off
I’m a wandering soul, mama
But, I am at peace with myself,
My dreams still my dreams
Not yet drained of the energy to ‘become’
So, I know that day will come
If I continue to live with my dreams
In the peaceful environment of my mind
So, wait mama, wait
Your little boy will come home
To build that monument
In remembrance of you
17th November, 2019
