The Dual Series | Dawn and Night-time


Dawn & Nighttime
It's a circus,
with no clowns here on the cliff of the moon,
a potrait of black and silver hanging down the street lights,
heavy black stockings on the shoulder,
It is night,
it is,
night.

A see-saw balancing across the first cock crow,
see, the sun is coming,
dawn!
wood eating termites and moths scamper into home -holes,
a canoe man stealing fishes - he capsides,
they run,
run,
run from light.

and night time must come,
mustn't it?
needn't it?
It shall,
Just like,
"night" -and
"light",
the only two words in our earthly travelogue.

Copyright © - Jesunifemi Olatunbosun
Jekphrasa.
Catch up on dual series with Sir Okiri Christopher Raphael



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