Communion

by Kunle Aduloju

 

I am back

To the rhythms of my blood

Presence and portion

That was…

Which  still stands;

 

I am tuned

To mysteries in the hidden words

To fragmented meanings

In self-generating expressions;

 

I have leant

From sounds in silence;

 

silence

That binds generation of dreams and memories

 

I journey in phases

Through network of paths;

Shaped by plain feet of travelers

Where breath of the ever present

Purifies the naked air

 

I raise my voice

At this hour

To you

At the four corners of the earth

Where the  ageless winds sprout

 

I hold my bare palm

And all in me

To the clouds of the rising sun

And to the passage of the setting sun

 

That my whole being

Wherever I go

May savor essence of your presence

 

Here after

In the coming days.
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Adekunle Aduloju hails from Ado Ekiti, read law in Ile-Ife, and was called to the Bar in 2008. He was a member of the Ibadan Poetry Club in the early 2000s.