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Footprints Eyitemi Egwuenu
Will it hold
My spirit
As it climbs?
My soul
As it rides this curl
Of smoke that creeps up the thatch?
Pure,rainwashed
Prodding the murk
Probing Erebus,
Sowing light.
Vaulted by this rhapsody
A web of notes
Strong within me
Against the Wind.
Will it
Hold my Spirit,
Will it
My Soul?
As visions lie
Cremated,
Wombed by impotent
Ash.
Longings withering
In the stale breath of years
As I lay snared
By dreams unlived.
Will these
Offsprings crumble too,
A spectre
Of bygone years?
Will the
Footprints grow sunbaked
With no sprout of green?
Therein
Is the dream that strains,
The stealth
That stumbles in...unbidden,
To pull
The silent strings,
To birth the notes,to
Rapture me
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