Music Life Poem by Kingsley Egbukole

Music, music and more music
soothing balm
Even the hard and distraught heart

Jazz, sentimental
Soft butter
That lure my taste buds to erection

Its absence dull would life be
Abandoned in arid belt
Malnourished and dehydrated

Days are brighter
And night merrier
When strings and drums
Speak in accord

Speak on then jazzers
Beat my belly to drum
My phalanges percussion and guitar
And the day will be longer without pain
And stomach empty with no need.

(Sunday 28th November,1999,2.30pm)