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Design

DESIGN

How time swims fast
Like a giant shark`s motion
Against the wave of the ocean
That if you wake of hunger and sleep of diseases
Time shall swim swiftly across your eyes and senses

In elephants for their babies yet unborn is their bellies
In motion swinging like a hanged fruit attacked by wind
Ostrich with long leg, fluffy drooping feathers, lays the egg
Giant like the head of a newborn
The world is the egg, gestating in motion at the egg-life
Laid by the hands of Allah

In the egg-life centuries danced like the dance of a troubled
Butterfly, applauded
And decades parade themselves, like bats in morning
Flight scattered

In the grave lie bones at slumber for millions of years
In the grave lie bones at sleep for thousands of years
Their hearts have stopped the noble job of pumping and their
Bloods, at first alien to the mother earth, have learnt that white
Can mix black to form grey

Yet man struggled to learn from nature
Ready to abide by its complexities
Nature has so much esteem and pride
For it says in a silent voice, like the hiss of an owl in the dreadful night
``You don`t get to know me with ease``
The whispering sounds of the trees when hit by the breeze
Is the voice
The serene sounds of the ocean in the sunny afternoon
Is the voice
The rumbling sounds of the hungry lion
Is the voice
The breaking sounds of the incubating bird
Is the voice
The croaking sounds of the male frog in the friendly night
Is the voice

Why should you boast and blow trumpets
When your reasoning strikes luck

You never have anything first

You never sang first, for the nightingale is a sonorous singer
You never did acrobat first, for the dolphin is the master of the art
You never made satellites first, for the moon is earth’s natural satellite
And you never have anything first but nature have had it


If you have been able to fly across the continents unhindered
With neither the hail nor cloud impede
Kudos to your acumen be
But you have not been able to fly like the wind
With wings wide like heaven and legs tall like the pillars of the rain

If you have been able to send speech across the ocean
Like children talking at the ends of tubes
With neither the great walls nor mountains impede
Kudos to your intelligence be
But who is responsible for the human voice or speech he makes

Make your eyes work, look up straight into the heaven
And see the big bulb that lights the earth
You have made bulbs to grace your rooms
But you never have it first

A speck of dust does not belong to you

Who has ever remembered when his mother’s womb was host?
Men of wit never remembered

In troubled water, waves are unending
The egg-life is troubled, worries are unending



Like the egg approaching the hatch, like the morn
Approaching the noon
The shell is never tired, only the time is done
The sun is never tired, only the earth spins
When winter comes, is autumn far away?

Then God shall heal the bones at slumber
Arising like the flight of the naked winds to the assembly
We shall all be present

Thanks to God who made the heavens a canopy
The hole, the pride of the mole
Domiciled the birds in the nest
And made the sky, the recreation of the birds

YUSUF OLUWASOLA OMOLOJA

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