Homecoming Poem by A A Umar Udubo

I

Like the bodypen
and the liquidink
to soul the body supplements
thinkless
of thisandthat dear
for hereandafter
the being
the soul rests in a home
that is bodyframe

ii

As life gives
you
away
go not
away
till you say
to her colourless face:
meet the souls
you've given
away
in the Other life
and me

iii


The beautiful stars
in the grey-skies
and the
balloon-size-moon
shall be seen
in heaven's rooftops
if there be desire
to see

iv

When there's nothing
and all's turned to dust
there's little of me
and you
our self
life, you and my self
conjoin to let go
at the ebb-end of eternity
my soul, you the carriage,
for home it yearns


v


When all there was
is no more
blown
out...
into
wide openings of eternity
in endless
r
o
w
s


naked
barefooted


an earth
speaking
to
list
ening feet
jampacked with pastpast
past-future and present-future...

the movement of life
evaporates
with stillness of steam
into timeless eternity...


in every soul there is
of souls
(passed-on-travelers, journeying passengers)
from beginnings of life
to
stilling end


there is little of me
little of you
our
s
e
l
f


no
death
no
hell
no
heaven
can
let go
in us
the bond
that's soul

vi


The carriage
carts on
within it
our
s
o
u
l...


bruised
wounded
blighted by
night or day...

healed by
her cold touch
our
universal lady
in black

and
rising higher
the carriage
carts on
without me
without you
without our
s
o
u
l...

to eternal shores
(there on
ly
is
our
self

our
soul)

carrying
no marks
no
scars
no
cracks


our

soul

journeyed on
like a bird


vii


Where formless
souls
seek a return,
the bluff of eternity,
a beginning
devoid of a start

dear lord
we
s
e
e
k
to jour
ney
on