Aunty adejumoke Enitan .......

i sat near you

just as if at your feet
in measured silence
we walked around the big compound
and you asked about my destiny
and i blurted out , may be bolstered by the cry
of my broilers some few meters away
i want to grow up tendering
the young fowls and plants
i wish to make it so big
with machines i havent seen before
i threw my imagination on million hectres
coloring my destiny with innocent paints
you were amused as both of us
looked up to the just perched bird
you took interest in me in a way
as if we have known for ages
and when you bade farewell
i think it will just be for a while

it is now twenty -five years

indelible memory that conquer spaces
i thougt of you , often
the clergyman's daughter
and the young farmer ,
and wonder where you may be
now the thought of farming is fresh
and you still come to mind
just like yesterday .......
when shall i see you again .