One Friend I Call Brother (For Nnamdi Ekeocha)(Part 3) Poem by Kingsley Egbukole

Unspoken respect
Is permanent in the mind
Somehow like a written programme
Regularly rehearsed
We do all
Short of annoying each other
I guess we knew our limits
And accepted excesses as jokes
Or were we limitless?

Many more years after
The bond is stubborn to time
Resilient to pressure
Our opinions still concur
Like the common name we share
Is there an od
In namesakes been friends
Just thinking.

(Sunday 31st August,1997)