You wonder meWhen I wandered To gather the powderTo rub your shoulder Wonder!Why cometh at all?Why you knew you were ephemeralAll effort was to feather your nestYou didn’t allow me before you drewThe cotton on your life Wonder!Your beautiful face a façade of illness Your little affection and unending agony for your lovers You proved us wrong when we vowedThat twenty lads will play together for centuryYour left vacuum a deep hollow in mind Wonder! Your static shadow chase us everydayYou left us your name rings bell every hourThe scar in our mind refuses to goWonder!I still remember you childlike dispositionI remember you under the baobab tree of AjoseI remember amidst your playmatesI remember you in the early morning mist Ho! I remember bats spat on our backI remember when snake chased us out of dumpI remember you in the endless gloom of hopeHope to see, walk and dine with youBefore our creatorWander!Dust to dust you crossed the RubiconThink not the bosom and acquaintanceIt taketh no solace or revelry anymoreHow lonely you left us in the cage of agony and pain!The radiance of your face taketh two to tangoWe can only see you in the spaceNot in the full glare of our sightThe pain we forever be nursed in our mindsWonder!I solicit for your loversYour friends and enemies who withdrewWith their claims at your tombSaying the meant not to this extentOur eyes accompanied you to your tombBut could not help you back homeOur minds ran miles of retrospection Wonder!We know you place in heavenDine and wine with angelsFlow in angelic regalia with the angelsYou worthy to be rememberedThe womb was your first tombThe tomb was your last wombAdieu!
- Mattew Bisi Adewuyi
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