A Lament At Heaven's Gate
(for Chris Okigbo)
Briefly …
She makes a watery presence:
Singing
Before our oil-bean;
Clotting in departures:
Cloying with the shrine!
Singing
Worshippers have come;
We have come,
Singing but in sudden tears;
The goddess and her priest,
They have twinkled from the shrine:
Wiping their foot-prints
From Heaven’s Gate!
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