The Field Where Glory Does Not Stay (Poem)
Author: Oyadeyi Adekunle Emmanuel
Posted to the web: 8/23/2010 12:33:26 PM
The Field Where Glory Does Not Stay
As Beautiful andglamouring as she looks
Yet it glimmers into the thick darkness
As adoring and receptive and attractive as she stands
Yet she fades into the ripples of ugliness
With strings glory and fame does she give
At will she thus take
Her illusory image beckons on me and I hopelessly stepout
Her gifts of doom is like a sporadic disease of theskin
Her leniency makes me remember by childhood
Her threat of adulthood is like the oath of abrotherhood
Her subtle touch of lust makes me lose my manhood
And I say to myself, what then is the joy ofmotherhood
As I wonder in the savanna of my heart,
I felt the emptiness of a dying youth whose ardor ofyouth
Have smoked out the brain off his skull
Then I recall the two aged man and woman with greyhair
Standing at the beautiful gate of the field where avoice is never heard
They say to me “son… to him who can interpret the metaphorof the aged
He alone has the understanding of the antics oflifeâ€.
Why stand here like a guard I asked
‘Hmm… (Pause) we are guards to the novice, look atthis graveyard
That is the field where glory does not stay’
Instantly, I receive a novel inspiration accompaniedwith the rhythmic
Beat of life… NO, NO, G-L-O-R-Y, IN, IN LIFE
Glory is of HIM who never shares
Show me he that parades fame and glory and
I will show you the candle in the wind
Show me he that have gifts of life in exuberance
I will show you he who never live with one.
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