Monday, June 1, 2015

SILAS OLAOYIN ABAYOMI


SILAS OLAOYIN ABAYOMI
THE WOMB: A HOME LIKE NONE.


It may look inauspicious every time,
you may not give attention to it,
it may not be a drawing-card for
every woman;
regardless, a sanctuary
it has been for ages.

A spread-on mat for lovers-
more so, a home every
living creature at one
time  lived;
a home yet un-born generation
will hire for nine months-
a spacious home-room or
classroom every child begins life.


A home with a single door-
serving both as entrance and exit,
a home without window,
nevertheless, it is neither cold
nor hot;
a home without electricity,
yet, it doesn’t experience
power outage.


A home without pipe-borne water
but fitted with  complex
circulatory system-
that supplies oxygenated fluids to
its tenant.
A mobile home that expands
in size to accommodates guest,
but contracts as soon as the guest
leaves.

One of the three homes-
man lives,
the smallest that no one
has control upon,
but providentially created.

Shall I forget your-
protective power?
In sun and in rain-
your protective hands are
always seen,
even when naked-
you clothed me;
your three-layer-mantle
neither faded nor torn.

Forever-I shall remain grateful
to you,
even if advance age makes you
shrink and become enfeeble-
you will remain eternal treasure
of no equal.

Forever, I shall look onto
YOU-as the only HOME that
never lose  VALUE


SILAS OLAOYIN ABAYOMI





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