Gone But Not Forgotten. Poem by Olamide Adebayo

Before you, we stand,
For we loved you,
Even when you graced our fatherland.
The refrain, we could recall;
That which you inscribed on our land,
Should you come across past heroes,
Please join their band,
But remember not to forget
That you are our own brand.
We read your thoughts;
For its content, we understand,
We pledge now to dwell in peace,
Which you always demand.
We are pained in the heart,
For such absence-it's nut to withstand,
Forgive our tears,
But they chime with your command.


Money might have stopped me
From buying you the best flowers,
But place my poem
On the highest platform of your heart,
And if pleases it you, let it your chart,
But when to your legacy it reverts;
To abrupt the volume of your honour to dart,
Launch a garden-rocket of swats,
Into the blank starred by my unjust lapse.


Punish me with non-void pleasures,
I will undo more dreads before you-
To be measured amidst treasures.


Before you, we stand,
To pledge a nation of promise-
To bleat in tread-line of your far-driven legacy.