I Know a River
I know a river;
long before I began to
hold a pen
those days of-
-"twinkle, twinkle little
star"
I know a river;
A river of words;
not river-benue or
river-niger
But its a river that
flows in human-
imagination
And a paper is made as
a boat
-paddled with pen
To sail a message to
the earth
From heaven's gate
-a lullaby to the infant
and wise-words to the
adult
I know a river;
Shakespeare and
others've been to the
river
-they took their bathe
and left
Today,
Here I stood by the
river bank,
With my colleagues
Akewusola habib,
Oludipe samuel,
muhammad-ahmad
-Rasak-malik-
Gbolahan, Randy
michael, Oloidi kingfemi
and others
In the young of our
days
Bathing in the river of
words
Though we're nude in
the river
But we're clothe with
our imaginations
I know a river;
A river from solomon's
source
Now I am swimmer,
-in its floods
Adesitimi Taiwo Damilola.
Copyright © Adesitimi Taiwo Damilola | Year Posted 2012
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