By Victor Uzodinma Chukwuma
39. The Poet
Rather than mourn,
beauty is drawn.
Rather than wail, paints surge
From scintillating rainbow.
Deep down
The heart,
The joy of knowing apocalypse
Nourish daily the soul.
And when the light goes,
His soul sits on a metallic bull
And snarls at the unrest
On the Olympus peak.
40. Life
On your marks,
Get set,
Go.
He takes off
And runs
Along nights and days.
Bends and corners
Hills and valleys of chameleon
It juggles past.
He reaches the finishing line
A rag
Then, rests in peace.
Life, what else are you?
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.