My First Day in the University - A Poem (Benue State University)

Too full of memories first my day in this world,

This world known as Uni. My mind tells me

There are nascent experiences coming for me,

Then my eyes have seen some skirts in blinding apparels,

Who pave the Uni’s streets with flimsy glories.

Yes, some suave skirts stroke my sight with a soul-lifting style,

Their walk styles, that morph me into a statute,

Their pulchritude that cause involuntary dropping-jaw-

Oh! How sweet how lovely, how tantalizing to the sight of man!

Indeed, Heaven have been so creative!

I am numbed indeed by these colourful sights!

So my mentals arouse me hastily than death kills;

Am I not forgetting the destination of my journey?

Thus, when skirts shall cause unrest in the hearts of trousers,

I shall be faithful to my missions & visions,

And listen to the reverberations of father’s voice,

I shall reminisce about his warnings cut, and mother’s weep alike.

Mother once told, “my son, your tomorrow died yesterday”

Never is this a deter, it is my greatest push.

For since the world is evil & divine, man shall be wise

To unshell its mysteries. Sometimes it fakes, sometimes it reals.

When my eye shall transcend its ambit, I shall cut it off

For a heaven is better off a hell.

When my loins shall long for fruits forbidden,

I shall pray to Heaven, who shall make them nocturnal

When skirts and trials might be gone in sleep.

 

 

In this Uni, my eyes behold two treads;

One, straight, full of scenic detours

And the other, strait & hole-riddled.

Thus my mentals shall tell of such my feet shall tread

That my life shall drown not in the midst of illusion.

 

For the race is like a forest trip,

Thus, man shall double his God-given ribs,

To live a story that makes him fit

Even in paradise where he’s native.

 

I am now at the hatch of my journey,

And since Heaven shall dub my fate joy,

I hope to smile at the twilight of the race,

I hope to see father and mother, dandle in a sane joy.