Dele(For Dele Giwa 19th Year Remembrance)
Lingering will it be in our memories
As we memorise the memorable
Memoir of the memorial
Of Dele Giwa
A letter engraved in a Bomb
Plucked away our prolific
And dogged pen pusher
Dele, A News Watcher
Became a news
Watched under the watchful
Eagle eyes of millions of watchers
On a day better not to remembered
Sunday 19th October, 1986
Came the news of Bomb bombardment
We all woke up to the verity of a
News very sad to watch
But watched with pains and agony
There the Bomb boomed
With a letter speaking only doom
Dele, Life was abruptly seized from you
By the BBI of this world
Your dream was caught short
Orchestrated by the goons of the
Jackbooters in power who still
Want to return to power by means all
Dele, They threw spanners in your path
With the quest to kill the
Message and the messenger
But Dele,19 years after
The message lives
It leaves them
Only to live on them
For your message lived on truth
It feeds only on Justice
Adieu Dele!!!
Your blood shed will continue
To sprinkle trauma and agony
On all your killers
As we promise to continue
To truthfully push the pen like you did
Till the ink finishes
And till we can push no more.
Alayande Stephen Tolulope
October 1st 2005
9.00pm
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