Elixir of Life
Elixir of life
How do you live your life?
Had you say, I live for myself
You are like big baby
Whose baby took to the sea bay
To drink from the long life pot
Whose seaside was it point
To live hundred years a year
Two hundred years two years
Big baby was becoming infant
When he walked, his back faced the firmament
His mouth wanted to kiss the ground
His legs were robust as though rotten wood
Big baby stood facing the long life jar
Told small kid to say at the rear
In respected distance
Not wanted him to have the experience
Of this mysterious and wonderful jar
Also not aware to the big kid
That it had never happened
Infant like him who had twice become newborn
Could not fetch water in the long life muddy pan
Small baby stood by the seaside
Just as he was told
Watching swooping and chirping of seabirds
Sea wave stooped and stood
Measuring it height with small kid
The sea was emitting pleasant cold
Caressing the soul of small kid
And now small kid was in another world
Relishing fondling and kissing of the sea cold:
So big baby was neglected
Like abandoned goal, which however
Would be embraced in the future
Big baby dipped hands in the pot
And then he pulled it out
But his hands were dried just as before
No traced of water
Yet the pot was full of water
He wondered
And again he dipped his hands
More and more and more
But his hands were dried just as before
No traced of water
Yet the pot was full of water
He wondered perhaps his hands
Could not fetch the water, but his rubbery lips
‘I shall dip my head in to this pot
I shall swig the water and empty the pot
I shall live long past Noah
History shall talk of me above Noah:
He had lived one fifty years
Before he started afresh-new youth-hood years
Maybe I shall live long
Long and long.
Perhaps I might not defunct
After emptying this long life pot
My boy shall die while I'm exist
I shall place him beneath soil of gold in zealot’
The rest will be posted latter. Thank you for reading me.
Copyright © Afolabi Muideen | Year Posted 2016
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