'Several Events Occured' Poem by Israel Dammy Ipaye

Several exhilarating but atrocious occurences
Had we but encountered after dreams we mean our dreams
Comic but sometimes elegiac were they
With these adaptive organsall over our sensories
Many scaped through but half expired.

Several teeming of rainfalls
But were being drained when the place was dry and thirsty
Dews uncountable were they on the apex
But being transpired during the summer
We know we have seen both life and death many on the roadsides.

Sequel to their victory the braggarts claim merit
Being overcomers precipitated by the metalic monsters
In their possession which they marshal gallantly
But we knew, this grace unmerited were they
Oh! we never deem it fit to experience this.

Now the 1st of the dreamt and suspensed January
Just like the trees bending to let the wind pass amicably
Do we dance to the rythm of the drum
Beaten vehemently by the expert drummers of ours
In harmony do they sound kpako-kpako-kpako-kpako-gbi-gbi-gbi
We all yearned may His name be adored
As no one else is worthy of this except Him that lives above.