Akere Koro(Small But Mighty) Poem by Adedotun Segun

ONE:
IF indoors please you not
Do stay by the pathways
Riverbanks an cross roads
Stay out in the heat of the day and at night
Come and go rain
Leaving dried pond
Suddenly!
The fruit falls unripe
Sweetly sore causing teeth crack
Be gone!
Gone with thy fellow
For the flesh and bones talk in agony
To thy pledge
Written in false colour
For thy coming and going
A crown of thorns
Sucking gold to brass.

TWO:
Call I from the square of the earth
I’m AKERE KORO
Though my head to earth
Immortality the hair sprouts again
Yet, you cannot solve my vagueness
Running to catch up with my reflection
You, into a puddle of drained spikes
Mothers! Come and go tide and market
Spirit gladness in yolk
Shaping omega out of alpha
Journey crowned glory, kindred fellow!
My heart gladness for another death
Brand me deep in my bosom
Even deeper in my shoulder
Nightfall! Cry mothers of typhus
AKERE KORO strikes again
Small, sharp and smooth is my thirty-two
Which increase labour, sweat, and tears
Giving way for gigantic rituals
Despite all
I am fulfilled to say
Seed fall unripe to the wind of oath.