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Josiah Yakspirt Yakubu

Biography: A renowned Poet and also a prolific writer who has contributed alot in world Poetry at large. Many of his works have been published in the sun magazine, The New Yorker, spillwords in New York, premium times Lagos, and hello poetry etc. He is currently a student of International relations in the Nigerian Army University Biu, Borno state.

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Josiah Yakspirt Yakubu

Friday 13 November 2020

THE WANDERER

So I left my home

Not knowing where to go

As I travelled all the night long

In the dark all alone,

With neither lamb to light my way,

Nor water to quench my taste;

I kept thinking on the middle way

Counting the challenges I must face;

I know my kindred want me

But I must go to Timbuktu

Without regret I'll leave

For this is what I want to do;

And then I'll venture to mount Kilimanjaro,

There I'll meet traders who'll go to Marlboro

From there I'll travel to the Kalahari desert

And then go to watch mountain Everest's gizzard.

Here in the woods so lonely

A Wanderer I am so hungry

No water to quench my taste

So dirty, with dusty covered face

I'm a Wanderer like Dingis Wayo,

Who was helped by Shaka warrior of Zulu

When he cried out like the village Griot

Ahoy! Ahoy, as he narrates to the people

And when I'm done with my wondering,

I'll return to my country

What else can I do than to tell them stories

And when I die, I'll be buried in the village's cemetery.

There is nothing new in this life we live

What we yearn to do has been done by others;

We must one day account of the life we've lived

Stop wondering, and live a good life like no other.

©Yaksport Josiah.

31st October, 2020.

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