IMMACULATE LOVE

IMMACULATE LOVE

(End of I.T. Reflection for Isi)

True love

Is God-centred

True love

Is white.

 

True love,

True love

True love

Is ever pure.

 

This meeting of ours

Will ever green

In my memory remain.

 

This is a going

That is not a parting

But a going and a coming

That strengthens our love.

 

-      John Odey Aduma.

 

*Written in a cab on my way to Ota in Ogun State, Nigeria.

January 28, 2000.

 

 

THE ACTS OF THE SILENT SENTINEL AND THE DANGER OF DOING NOTHING

 

When Muhammadu Buhari attacked the Shi’ites and killed them;

I said:  I just can’t be bothered because I’m not a Shi’ite;

       And when he went Python-dancing at Afara-Ukwu;

I said: I just can’t be bothered because I’m not Igbo,

When he attacked and killed the Middle Belters;

       I said:  I just can’t be bothered because I’m neither a Tiv nor an Idoma, nor an Igala,

When Buhari attacked and killed the descendants of Oduduwa;

    I shrugged my shoulder and said: I just can be bothered because I’m not Yoruba,

Again, when Buhari attacked the Niger Deltans;

 I turned the other side and said:

Wetin concern okro soup with bonga fish!

When he attacked the Christian Northerners;

     I cackled and said: Na their Wahala be that!

And by the time he came to attack me,

all were dead and gone,

 So, I was left to suffer the fate of all those

who do nothing in the face of injustice,

Tyranny and oppression!

 

 

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