Let’s take a ride,
Let’s take a walk across a field,
But let’s water the farm
And plough a field.
Let’s wake up and look into life;
The deep wells scattered on the Sahara.
Let’s look into the faces
And make faces
At the faces that feign their emotions.
Let’s smile at the ones that don’t understand why;
Why grass should be green and why weed must be dry,
Why the sky is blue and why the clouds move,
Why I’m writing this and why you are reading this...
There are two answers to every question;
Even this one?
Distance is a word that encompasses a billion miles.
Let a thousand feet walk home, to my home!
Let each tongue hold a word each from the depth of
the explanation of the word love.
And tell my Mother
that I love her in a thousand words.
Let the thousand feet greet my Brothers
With the remnants of the message to my mother.
And if a tear should fall,
Let it be sent to my Love and let them tell her that;
“He
loved you this much”
For even if all the beautiful maidens of Fouta Djallon
were placed at the feet of my heart
I would still search for her face in the crowd.
For all the scholars in Timbuktu,
All the shrines in Igboland,
And even the Masai priests
Can’t explain my words...
For the feet that marched to topple
The Libyan leader
Like the feet that are marching
To tame the Lion of Syria
As the world dries the tears of the Rohingya Muslims
With dust...
May Allah
build mansions for the martyrs
With the rubbles that crushed them.
Deep is the well that can quench
The thirst of the Sahara
Sometimes love isn’t enough
But I ask;
What can ever be enough?
Four legs make up a chair
And the man short of a leg is still a man.
There is so little
That could have been so much.
The castles we build with our minds
Remain in our minds
Those transient minute thoughts
Remain at the base of my cup of tea...
Let’s eat more sugar
More salt, more oil and more pepper...
Less vegetables and fruits
Doctors are hypocrites...
I have a question for the eyes that read this
A question that has a thousand answers;
If you had a thousand feet where would you walk to?
