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.