Event – Bookversations with Tomi Adesina
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In an overcrowded class
I found a friend who smiles, always
Her smile, enough to lighten my day
A shield from the draining sun
Life
Of skinny children with empty bowls
Of moguls dressed in gilded attires
Of ancestors long gone
When you came to seek my commitment
You came wearing no sterns but smiles.
You knelt to our customs, and laid a-front my parents.
You promised me heaven, on earth,
It must have caused
God a whole lot
to form me –
a steady hand