In my eyes I wear the distance between
the Earth and the Oort Clouds
I sail at the back of Halley Comet and taunt
a billion quivering quasars as I pass them by
I dive through a black hole a zillion years
and surface at the backyard of a trillion stars
my journey undone
Who am I to question the infinite blackness
of the eye of the universe that gulps up the
endless white a thousand time and still
remains impregnably dark? so dark the sun
cannot strike a lining on its surface
I began my journey before your birth
Oh Milky Way when the universe was a
million desolate babels in the cauldrons
of melting seas whirlwinding dust and
fuming gasses
I'm still abroad all at the finger tip of
Olodumare my exploration ever undone
OLODU - I am still ranging, will I ever arrive
the frontiers of this infinitives?
I have sailed a trillion years and still
counting and missed my way a million times
in a single alleyway of yours and still
questing
When will I come to the end of this beam of
light lamp lit at the door of just a single
restroom of that alleyway were there an end
to your endlessness?
Would I ever find the answers to my endless
puzzles of your endlessness wonderment?
I, a whiff of dust, a pint of water, a spark of
flame, a puff of air, congealed into this tiny
tadpole waving my brittle tail every time I'm
given the chance to dance like a bubble in
seafoam, a single bubble in the seafoam
Who am I to walk the length of your eyes,
the breadth of your iris and the forever ever
expanding perimeters of your KUN FA
YAKUN that encodes all there is, all there has
ever been and all that shall be?
Can a tadpole walk the length of this sea and
survive to bray a eureka?
Let me just but count the blessing of being a
witness to this aftermath of LET THERE BE
LIGHT
In this infinitesimal stretch of this endless
halo between the Cup of Your Hand and get
lost somewhere in the pouch where all
humanity and the fauna and flora of this
Earth fit just like a stick of match, just like a s
stick of match
*Olodumare : Yoruba name for the Supreme
God
(C) Kamarudeen Mustapha
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