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AS IF IT MATTERED

  • Ayodele Ayobolu
  • Jun 9, 2017
  • 2 min read

The cockroach died yesterday

Crushed, attacked fatally

By missiles and missives of death

With armory and armaments

The ant lost a limb

It worked so hard at the factory

It was sweating and it slipped

The limb went with the works

The fowl lost its neck

Some felons had it for dinner

Now I’m writing obsequies

For the cockroach, the ant and the fowl

As if it mattered

What if the cockroach died

Ant the ant lost its limbs

And the chicken was de-necked

What if…

I wore a used shirt from the “bend-down” boutique

Will I ever know

Who owned it first, second and …

Was the owner sane or not

Light brown or white

Did he believe in anything or everything?

What if

I lodged in a hotel room

And I wondered who had been between the laundered sheets?

Who’s wife?

Who’s husband?

Who’s sister?

Who’s brother?

What if

As I dinned at the restaurant

And the cutlery was dicing

the culinary offerings before me

And I wondered

Who has used the spoons before me

Who’s friend?

Who’s enemy?

Who’s neighbor?

Who’s stranger?

As if it mattered

In the rush of a thousand footsteps

On the streets of life

Many have gone before

Many will come behind

So what matters

Take up your cross and carry it with pride

Its tailor made for you

Take up the weights and summount them with joy

It will give strength for the gaps in-between

Wear your experience as a badge of pride

Go where no one has gone

Do what you have come this far to do

Because when the cockroach is dead

Ant the ant’s limb is gone

And the headless chicken is forgotten

They all become fossils to fuel the earth

The energy will matter

The strength in your smile

When everything is falling apart

The grace in your gait

When you feel like bulking

The fire in your eyes

When you cried yourself to sleep

The urge to try again

When the relics of yesterday’s attempts

still litter the ocean beds of time


 
 
 

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