"HERO ON GLORY FOR GOLOZO" By Uzah Ephraim Oryiman

Father
Teacher
Musician

Your words are sword
Shielding truth
To the world that hearkens

Your words
Heavy with didactic thrust
Have counsel the young
Strengthen the old
And pacified the feeble

Your words
Give rapid bile to the sailing wind
To the squirming tornadoes
Upon which plenitude is axed

Your words
Is the woodpecker
That silenced the sizzling echoes of the forest
The lyrical shades of light
That beam to strive on strides

Your words
Sonorous to the tilted voices
Of stagnant rainbow
The  intended rain song
Simmering on the rooftop of dreams and hope
The hollowness of the raging valley
The blazer of the scourging sun

I hail you in adze of your wit
I hail you
Again i hail you
Words connoisseur

You are that Elephant whose hooves patched furrowed filament
You are that Bee
Who stings and gives honey

I hail you father
I hall you teacher
Again I hail you musician!



About the author

Uzah Ephraim Oryiman is  a graduate of English from IBB University, Lapai, Niger state. He is an aspiring writer whose interest has been in drama and poetry. His debut play "The Herb" (unpublished) has been stage by shinning star(dance and drama troupe, Lapai Niger state) and by Naseldram (IBB university drama club with three Nollywood stars present). His poems have appeared in Ebedi international magazine(2017, 2018 editions) as well as other sites and blogs. He is currently undergoing the one year compulsory National Youth Service Corp program in Kaduna, Kaduna state. He is currently working on his second play under the title of Giwa's Swing! He has a collection of poetry under manuscript with the title "Strange Quest and other poems".