Name Poem by Alade Abayomi Idris

Write your name on sand

Wind wouldn't forgive it

Engraved your name on wood

Hungry termite would eat it

Patronize the smith

Iron rust and name fades

Write it on luxuries earth ever seen

Fire would laugh it off.


Write your name in the heart of men

Neither wind, termite, fire nor passage of time wipe it.

Your name is emboldened as lips whisper

You live on as men procreate

Till infinite, your name reign with moon

And sun eulogize it.


Write your name in the heart of men

With what you do and stand for.