What i might compare to a burning library

I have washed my hands
with the permission of the elders,
and libations to gods of our land.
I beg to differ on Mazi’s comparison.
the death of an elderly man
is not always a burning library.
sometimes, it is a written book
that has no letters, words, clauses,
sentences, paragraphs, pages
or chapters worthy of remembering.

Tomide Abdul