TODAY

Many saw you
Who you never saw
When you passed...
Today!

You saw many
Who never saw you
When you passed...
Today!

Not many saw many
Who saw them
When they passed...
Today!

2060 DREAM

Our hearts beat

As our young blood

Nimbly...

We see

But within

We dream

Half away

Into the naive century

Of a country of caliber

A land of leaders

A state of responsible citizenry

A nation of enlightened minds

A metamorphosis of mindsets

And an innovative society

Of a time of time

A period of new paradigms

Where upon we'd loftily price

Reading and education

Entrepreneurship and innovation

Leadership and integrity

Selflessness and generosity

Where the young

Growth is allowed

And the old

Dies fulfilled

Of our national growth

Into the mien of first worlds'

Into an economy of globe's top ten

In the indices of transformed nations

And into the intellect of world powers

Of a Nigeria

Nimbly

We see

But without

We become

Halfwards

Into the proper jubilee

NIGHT

When the cockerels have crowed

When the wind becomes a child

When the atmosphere goes sad

And the cloud-gut sky now frowns

When the silvery white sheet sublimes

And the tiny dots appear

When the lazy fronds type

At the blindness of the sky

When young hearts gather and play

Under the watchful eyes of moonlight

Making merry telling tales

Out of the sunshine of emotion's warmth

When silence becomes louder than noise

And the crickets chant an endless anthem

When Allah's worshippers yawn their prayers

As loud as rapture's blast would

When life's fire is flickered out

And life's light is trimmed down

Even if our light was dark

We could blinklessly say its night.