Elegy For Award-winning Poet, Essayist and Columnist, Prof. Pius Adesanmi)
While we’re mourning the loss of the literary giant Prof Pius Adesanmi, I will be publishing elegie, tributes and essays in memory of him. Here’s one by Izunna Okafor
Roasted Faraway
(For Prof. Pius Adesanmi)
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner in his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet as an Ireland
In a skull rounded in the clime of golden edges
Off the coast of Addis Ababa
Tears rang bell aloud
Beholding a star being staggered
In a nimbus of a faraway land
A heroic pen was raptly melted
As the book of many pages shattered across the ocean
A nation’s pride has become ashes
Making a wave in the hist of the deadly world
Oh! he was roasted faraway
Faraway his father land
Amidst tears in the eyes his nation
A great gem was ruefully tossed
The ashes of his fecund head
The cranes of his creative fingers
The cremains of his eagle eyes
Now pose lifeless in a foreign land
A hero is gone
A nation is mourning
He’s gone forever
Oh! He was roasted faraway
