By Victor Uzodinma Chukwuma
86. She
There She comes cables of life
A glow,
Truth,
A plain fact.
There She stands
A glitter’
Messages,
A twinkle Star.
There She sits
A goddess,
Solace,
An Oasis.
And I here on the balcony of life
In age long vigil wait
for droplets of truth and solace,
that I thirst.
With morning filled with thunderstorm,
days fed thin with hues of cries
and nights dripping in tears
Am lucky, She is at my doorstep.
87. She II
A parishioner of She I
stood watching with brilliant admiration
as the gentle, graceful and soothing portrait of She
flowed out of Matisse’s brush.
That session finished
She took another posture
And he started again
this time in tune with the 9th Symphony
Immediately came a momentary ecstasy of the spirit
in resonance with songs of men of goodwill;
then Bethoven walked in
and sat immaculately down.
I bowed gracefully to him, to Matisse and to She.
Satisfied. I walked away
and woke up.
Victor Chukwuma, Professor of Physics, renowned for his immense contribution to the development of Astronomy and Space Science in Nigeria, is a Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Physics.
