Soul In Crisis Poem by Samuel A. Eyitayo

I just woke up with burdens
Weights that my soul abhorred
Nothing was meaningful to me again
Bogged down with many things
Reasonings were fast coming
Negative they were
The reasons for these
I remember not
Forcing myself to recollect
Nothing flashed there
Oh! Dejected my soul was
Deep, I deep within
In the ‘koro-koro’ of my being
No one could understand
Feel, no one could feel
The closest could not
Even when the subject could not
Ha! It was not palatable
It was a great crisis
Real crisis of soul
I could not fattom it
Enjoyment ran their race
Away from me
Sorrow stuch itself with me
Touchy was I
Throughout the length
Nothing pleased me
Than to shout and grind
People tand me not
Peeping at a great distance
Thinking of wrong that took me
Ha! My soul was in crisis
In real crisis of life
Unknown it was
Unseen it is
Help, help, help I cried
Who could hel me
No one
Nobody
Except Him who sees me
Through and through
Suddenly! ! !
It left!
Peace took its rightful place
Free I became.

Samuel A. Eyitayo
1997