To you poets
Belongs the world
As sword to a knight.
When poetry sings,
Figures shall dance.
When the muse shoots,
A canister of melodious syllables,
Hearts shall submit
As sand to the rain.
Proverbs be the wheel of words
As cars to the human world
When the wheels wheel
Nigeria becomes London in 0 hours
As Lagos Ibadan in fleeting minutes.
Proverbs be the wheel of words
When a word is lost on a palate
Set a proverb out as a dog
To search and make out the meaning
The meaning of the vanished word.
Kunle Adebayo
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