TELL HER

Tell her
That all men
Are made of bone
And flesh

And for every man
There is a grave
And that every night
Must turn to day

And that tongue
Is not only
Speech servant
It can taste

And that tasty
And untasty
Can equally
Quench hunger

And that all
Need to sleep
At night
As I do

And tag to each
Man there is a name
And to each
Enemy a friend.

And that he who
Lack today can tomorrow have
And time befriend
No one

And truly
Good is no enemy
To bad , neither
Bad enemy to former

And never can forgiving
Mean forgetting
Nor tolerating
Fearing

And that he who
Gives is hardly forgotten
And he that hold
Is easily forgotten

And that not known
To man
His mind
Is his worst enemy!

Tell her
And don't forget
To tell her
I do know

Eyes were made
To see
But they shed
Also tears

Ears are for hearing
Yet they alert the
Sense of man
To awake defense

She should know
The boy is the father
Of the man; and elder
Should couth the younger

And without doubt
Each parent
Were once fathered and
Mothered as we are

And each food was meant
For eating saved
Water that inherited
Many other functions

When nail is cut
Another sprout
To take its
Place

When time finds
The traveler comes
Home to rest
And journey there end

And by the end
Of the day
Chicken come homer
To roost

All these yellow
Leaves you see
Were once
Green

And this darkness
And thunder that ear
Hates and eye scares
You will one day desire!

Aminu M. Hussain
(23-8-1998.)

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