Before, now, after

RUDOLPH ADIDI

I used to think you were a snub
during my first days in the library
when everyone was always a text away
you replied after every 7 market days

you do not wear the colour of your skin
inside your heart, your heart is a box
filled with humour, empathy and love
you are a friend to rice – oni fila pupa

you may become all you choose to be
one of the world greatest reciters
a father, a husband, a rebel or a dancer
I pray you will become all you want to be

Tomide Abdul