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Talking love
Like a man and woman pairs
man and poetry peers
walking side by side in pride
Like two souls sharing a common thought:
As one is made from the other
And that other is fused to the other
Like say the case of magnet and metals,
As metals are made of irons
And magnet is king of irons
So is love of man and poetry
As man lives in world of words
Wording is his real name
As the word is a man
‘Cos man is known by words
Acknowledged better by sounds of his tongue
As words spoken portrays him better
Being ‘true’ expressions of real self
Or probable expressions of apparent self,
Of deep emotions and feelings
For as the heart think and sobers
So it radiates from the tongue
And the man is said to have said.
Nuhu Yar’wa Bida · 1993
EDITOR’S NOTE
Originally published in Citizen on 18 January 1993, p. 49. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation verified against the archived page.