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SNAPSONG 96

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Niyi Osundare

THE closer I get to you

The less of you I see

Never knew the daemon of distance

Was such a trickster-god

Never heard the tale of the sun

Because my ears were far from the sky

Though I can touch the distant mountain

With the tip of a toe

Is the grass really

Greener on the other side?

There is a secret in the silent pasture

That pounding hooves have not revealed

A modest meal in a distant kitchen

May smell like a royal banquet

In a hungry household. The nose sometimes

Travels across uncharted spheres

Imagination is a magic, mysterious imp

With its countless bridges in the air

Sit in a chair from its carpenter’s shed

And watch your rumps crash to the wondering earth

But can we do without it

In our endless fare of “Let’s Pretend”?

Architects that we all are, who live

In the house before it is ever built.

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