On a Stage Above the Beyond(For Ogunyinka Damola 2nd Year)
For Ogunyinka Damola Ebenezer 2nd Year Remembrance
Of Illness of a Damola
Of Death to an Ebenezer
Of Disappearance of a Linguist
Of Eternal Ascension of a Living soul
To the great stage above the beyond
Bred in a clergy clad family
Of no one but the Ogunyinkas
With the last born baton in his hands
Exhumed from the city of "Iseyin"
A man of a baritone voice in
The wilderness of a choir
We toiled and laboured endlessly
With our eyes very heavy of TDB
The core to which you keep vigil
Became helpless and hapless
Only on your back exit from the stage
It all re-echoes nothing but something
In a Play titled Vanity of Life
For two moons rememberance we gathered
Not to mourn or weep today but to
Extol the uniqueness in him
That liveth still in our heart
For he it is indeed a rare breed
A scroll whose rarity brings out veracity
To three scores in November we shall
Continually gather every moon
To look Death straight in the face
And breath in fulfilment for a great work left behind
For we shall all come to join you in
The stage above the beyond
Promising to positively impact our society
Like you did in your sojourn on stage
Adieu.
Alayande Stephen.T
28th of November,2005
11.30am
For and on behalf of Dammy's Core in the
Deparment of Linguistics and African Languages,
University of Ibadan.2003/2004 Set.
Copyright © Alayande Stephen | Year Posted 2005
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