The Metamorphosis Of Ijeh Poem by David Ugba

Ijeh, in Nigerian dialect, is an Ibo word for a man's mortal and immortal journey. The poem 'The Metamorphosis of Ijeh' talks about man's mortal and immortal journey" and it's transformations. Life is not merely the breath we draw, nor the days counted under the sun. It is a sacred passage — a bridge between dust and eternity. Man enters the world as a traveler clothed in clay, carrying within him the whisper of the Infinite. Every joy and sorrow, every gain and loss, is but a footstep in the greater pilgrimage of being. For the mortal journey is brief — a market visit, fleeting like the shadows of evening; yet the immortal journey is endless, stretching beyond the veil of time into the vast silence of the spirit as explained in the Bible. This is Ijeh — the path no man can escape, the mystery that binds beginning to end, and end to beginning again.