POEMS: Inmates of time

Prof Victor U. Chukwuma

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.

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