A Trunk That Thrusts Itself Back to the Road

Dedicated to my younger sibling, Mr. Isaac Ogundare’s M.Sc. Academic Success.

1. A person asks me,

What did you go,

Go to the wilderness

To look for?

2. I went ‘to wilderness

To see a trunk

Rare and intelligent one

Amongst garden of trunks

3. I could not readily

Find ‘tis trunk at

Once, but diligent and

Clear look reveals it

4. Soon it was taken

Off the garden and

Cast far into the

Remotest part of wild’ness

5. Seasons pass’d by on

It where it was

Thrown to by the

Strange hand tha’ threw ’t

6. I cried and cried

How would this trunk

Get back to the

Garden among its peers?

7. Neither does anyone hear

My cries nor see

The tear droplets at

The edges of my eyes

8. After the end of

Nine seasons, times and

Chances happen to it

Gets back on road

9. Finally arrive at the

Garden of trunks ‘twas

Welcomed back into their

Camp in-a colorful way