Snapsong  235

Niyi Osundare

Wish I were the answer

     Which comes before the question

The hidden star in the firmament

     Of your night of magic murmurs   

What happens when your massive wealth

     Flows freely from the misery

Of the swindled millions plodding city pavements

     In search of their absent dreams

What happens to those

     Who measure their height

By the genuflection of those

     Who pray to absent gods

What happens to the missing Amen

     Of their frantic prayers

And the vulpine Shepherds

     Who break their fast on tender loins

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What happens to the compass

     Which loses its way

And legacies which hit the road

     With crooked legs

What happens to the pod

     Which comes without a seed

What happens to the masquerade

     Which loses its mask in the marketplace?

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