To these authors

for words needs a place to come from
Ake rose,
houses the mind that bleeds,
houses the gift, and gifts
us with Oluwole Osoyinka.

for wars won’t be won
if an enemy is spared,
a man has to help to tell
that life has no rules
but forty-eight is enough
to warn a willing learner
never to outshine the master.
if Ro’ was born in a green space
it wouldn’t be wrong to call him
Ro(birth)bert Green(e)

Tomide Abdul