The Shadow
(By Komene Famaa)
Though I forget for a moment
You remain still and firm
Though I travel at random
You follow me like my dog
Sometimes barking, playing with its tale
On early morning or evening walks
You visit me silently
Even in my dreams
Trying to imitate all that I do
As I lift my left leg you lift yours also
Sometimes you made me appear taller
Than what I am really is
But you totally remain dark in colour,
Obscure and full of energy and strength
I couldn’t understand your desire
Don’t you know I am leaving
Beyond this line
To search for the Golden “Loo”[deer]
I don’t know the place my heart yearned
May be it is a Wiiebiemaa, WiiBani or Wiidaanam
The birds playing freely in the sky
Shall take shelter at last
In the thickly covered leaves of tree
But where are you, oh sun
Oh Mother Earth
For whose sake it is
A drop of water from Maa Needam
Long to merge with the ocean
But where is my goal
In this journey to Kale without a canoe
I have taken a step however
Beyond the line
When I stoop you make me short
And stoop also
When I quicken my steps
You quicken yours also
When I run
You run as well
Like a kangaroo in the wild
In far away Australia
A country where I had a face to face contact
With this phenomenon and these animals
Australia is a country
With multiple climatic zones like the US
When I disappear you equally disappear too
Where are you, shadow of the day?
Let me await you
With memories of a past life
Unable to reach the land and dreams of my past life
And land in tropical Ogoniland
Where shadows are noticed in both
Day and Night during sunshine and moonlight
We go to our farms during the day
While we play at night in the moon light period
At night we see in the moon an old woman
Axing wood in the moon
This image is always glaring at night noticed by all children playing under the moon light beam while other traditional night dances are carried out too.
Night life is always as busy as daylight activities
Let it be swallowed by the hungry darkness
Which bring abrupt end to night activities.
Let these simple waves of rhythm
Be merged with anxious space
I shall wait for you
At the last boundary of the universe
Eagerly when you re-appear again
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