-Akinola Sesan

                                                                                             The beginning is not the end

                                                                                              The end is the beginning

                                                              Once upon a time

In the beginning, beginning of beginning

When eyes rested on knee caps

And the forehead stared toward the future

A proverbial moon stands still in the corner of a rural life, waiting….

Waiting, waiting and waiting and gleaming at every dream

Seated on the ground in naked rump

With the happy heart from aged elders

In the beginning, beginning and beginning

When Oluronbi was a child clamper on the shoulder to the farm

And the millet similes with Sorghum on fecund land

The mattocks and hoes flickered their tongues

On the wet nose of the mother earth

In the beginning……. In the beginning……

In the beginning of beginning when Oluronbi’s father

Sang to the distant rain

And the outpouring song of Olukoso

Meet the dancing feet of Idanre

Olosunta, Oke-Ibadan, Oke-mapo or many seven hills

Where the gods planted their abode

And take the woes of men to Olodumare

In the beginning…. In the beginning

In the beginning of beginning where there was no end

To Oluronbi’s childhood idiocy

And the father’s frequent scold of cane

Cleansing the pre-possessing errors of Oluronbi

In the beginning when acrid wisdom kills the bearer of the head

And acute foolishness breaks the cranium