TEll OF A TIME by Mide Benedict

Tell of a time when 
Beards told tales
When tortoise and squirrels 
Were buddies of old age

Speak of a time, with handwaves –goodbyes 
When woods and fire came 
Together to form great light

It was wow!
Those times when the soil 
Beneath our black buttocks
Caressed our bases

It was great! 
Those times flying nurses 
Transfused our blood
Into their bellies
But we cared not –we moved not
For the tales that fell –like stars from high sky
From wrinkled lips
Chained our minds

But those times have summersaulted
Three times like a man blessed with magun
That time once lived in the future
When stories were yet untold
Then present followed suit
And the past being swallowed 
By a once future like a mirage
Became a present like a warrior
Born into the kakanfo line

Then with the fleet of deadness 
Those times travelled through
They lie now in our memories 
Like a dead man leaves his image 
In those he leaves behind.