Recognition

O recognition not consolation 

Things are not too hard

As you think or better still 

To easier than you think 

Yet you waited for two decades 

Or at worst thirty decades 

To achieve them

Those lofty dreams of your life

To meet wole Soyinka for an orthograph

Or write a foreword to my first book

'Neo Marxism How To Conquer World Poverty '

I travelled to his forest to meet him

To unscrupulous rejection by kongi

For my unscrupulous dream 

Of being his heir apparent 

To the repugnant remarks of the secretary 

And security man who pleaded warmth

And console me with the grease

To ease my painful rejection 

Alll of a sudden the table 

Turned and the reply hit me like a rainbow 

Once in a lifetime of fortunate errands 

Garland on your shoulders 

And the new epochs 

Opens in the annal of great African literature.

Shalom!