CLAIRVOYANCE: a poem on mystery—Pawners Paper

Clairvoyance, a poem on mystery and unspoken imaginations of the future

CLAIRVOYANCE

Alluring, sounds the screech of the vulture to my ears

As it elongate with the heavy thumps of the wild cat on the hapless earth 

Awakening the earthlings who harbours in the nest of the forest

As the quirky tune ran into my tired ears

And therein my eyes sights the mystery hidden from the doubting eyes of men

 The snake walks with the head and the bear sings and plays guitar

While the chimpanzee does ballet with his feet kissing the earth

The lion feeds on grass and the mouse rule like the king of the jungle

While the cubs tutor their fathers like they once lived a century before

Strange?

 Here the time walks and register the motion of every creeping

And death holds his sickle to steal from the summer reaps

The fire sways with the water like lovers in a ball

And the sun runs with the moon with hairs of stars on an unending race

Strange?

The summer, winter, harmattan work in collision with one another

And the sand rises above the sea while the fishes swim in the latter

All fours walks on two while two walk on four

Strange! More, dozens more

Maybe I'm lost, probably dead. Is this hell?

Maybe I'm in a trance hoping to dine with Socrates

Or in the forms world called by the witty voice of Plato

Maybe I'm in heaven with no god or angels

No vines, Adam or Abraham to call a father

Maybe this was how its supposed to be, the unbiased reality

Maybe Parmenides and Plato really foresaw the world beyond

Maybe I'm just dwelling within the stormy ocean of my imagination

Maybe I'm just lost again like I've always been

Maybe!

Written by: Adedeji Raphael

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