By Nehi Igbinijesu
Come dine with me Mr. Dove
And we will many a problem solve
Bring the mountains down to valleys
Evading mudslides and darkened alleys
And we will crouch under the oaks
Having drunk our fill from flinty rocks
Sweetened by the breezy rush
O misty waterfalls in biosterious flush
And I will feed you sweets of corn meal
And a trillion seeds from the redhill granary
A little keg of palm wine and tigernuts
Roasted wild in the sunny azimuth
Then shall you be mine to have and hold
Bathing deep to the bottomless very cold
For a Kraken, very feared yet little loved
Has Cupid struck from above
How shall you swim o Mr. Dove
Drown you must in my sea of love
From whence hath it ever been told
Yet a dove lay by ugly Kraken bold
Tis love they say wound heal all
Yet die doth dove in very first fall
This Poem is part of the anthology of 30 Poems titled: “Dirges of The Niger” By Nehi Igbinijesu.
