Sola Ajibogere Poet Free verse

Prayer of Desire

Hunger sends cold fire round
       Through my veins
       Desperation baths me with hot sweat
       Of despair
       Anxiety weans out of my face
       A fine shape of destitution
            with a sharp blade of eroding-axe
       I was not born into this
       My grandmothers did not raise me so
       
       Let me, let me fly on wings of
           soaring books
       Is it then that I brazen my heart
       To dare the pangs of hunger
       Is it then that I pad my shoulders
       To shoulder my fate past despair,
            past fear
       Is it then that I hold my face in my hands
       And look destitution squarely in the face
       With courage, rock-intense courage
       Courage of the crouching leopard
       Mentality keen as of soaring eagle

       Afopina that seeks the secret of the
       Razing flame knows too late
       The plight of losing flight
       Make me not thus you Cosmic Hosts
       But let me, as I take the pains 
       Of the stinging bee,
       Enjoy infinite taste of its honeyed sap.









Afopina — nocturnal insects of the habit to crowd and fly around (naked) fire and therefore have their wings burnt consequently losing their ability to fly.

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