Time! Poem by Olawale Idowu

It happens all like a dream

Finding myself alone

Standing upon a mountain

Watching and observing the movement of time

Couldn’t believe what I saw

Couldn’t accept how fast that little clock moves


Then suddenly playing with the past and the present

I found myself back in the days

Standing up high

I looked around me I cried for help

I heard nothing, nothing I heard


A voice whispered into my ears

“She said Wale-there she is

Grabbing all that could be grabbed

Watching all that could be watched

Shooting all that could be shot

Living her only offspring within your territory”


Then I turned around trying to know

Where the voice came from

Then I heard that little innocent boy

Shouting 'granny I don’t want to leave

Granny she doesn’t belong here

Granny she made my life miserable'

Suddenly, she replied 'look into both hands

Take a sword make the decision on your own'

Then I said



“I will go for the left hand sword

Cuz the one on my right is pure

Wouldn’t avenge the sin of a mother

On that little innocent boy in my territory

But will surely look for that evil one

That kept aiming at all that could be shot! ”


She asked “why shivering son?

I said all I know-am all alone

Then she said look into the mirror

What did u see?

I said reflection….”

Then suddenly up I am again

In the middle of the night


Then I realized it was a nightmare!

Granny is gone long time ago

How I wish I could slow down

The movement of time!