I had a dream last night
a disturbing dream it was
I saw in clear vision something
Mountains of Kilimanjaro
Kenya, Elgon, Ruwenzori
and Atlas, Adamawa, all mountains
in the African continent
collapse into the Pacific Ocean
The living Dead tried to stop them
Militaries tried to stop them
Peoples of Africa tried to stop them
but the highlands went into the Ocean
without trace, with enough warning,
Seven hundred seventy seven years,
of slow but active disappearance
I inquired, “what about Drakensberg”?
“Listen. That one collapsed….!
a long time ago… in the Atlantic!”
And I woke up, but not in my bed!
LOVE ON NET
Nigeria’s a jungle though
There’s a fairy
She’s my first love on net
Magamathy.,the sweetest
She must be a bud
Blooming across lush green leaves
I feel the throb of her petals
Rippling like breasts
Black though,shining
Must be a bead of diamond
Makes a priceless necklace
Around my Yahoo page
Her fingers make a sieve
To compose the best words
For a stranger friend
Truly she’s borderless love
She has wings
I need no Air bus
Must she fly to catch me on
As I log on
We row in Chad
Fish in mangroves
Sleep in savannah
Scout along the Adamawa
Bathe at Niger delta
Roam in Abuja
Chat n laugh in Hausa-English
Kiss green and peace
Once a centre of slave trade
Now hers a federal state
She cherishes freedom
Finds humanity ever on line
As I bid good bye
I fly saffron ,green ,white
She kisses hers with crimson lips
A heart in the tricolour, I discover
We fly in air ,live air—
An illimitable life;
Dear, air unseen
Means life seen.
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