ÉGHÉ' (TIME) - Poem

ÉGHÉ'
                       "TIME"

With time 

The barren  becomes pregnant 

With time 

The pregnant woman becomes a mother  

With time 

the mother becomes a daughter 

With time 

The married woman becomes a widow 

With time 

the childless widow becomes an object of

obscurity and weak pity.

With time 

An heroes deeds are told as stories 

While great events become myths

And Once-Upon-A-Time.

For with time

Mountains metamorphose to sand 

Rivers turn farmland 

And Hills reduce to slime.

And time 

frowns nor smiles on nothing 

neither does he give nor take something

for only a fool boast with a dime.

Oh time 

you are so slow but yet too fast  

For our tomorrow becomes yesterday 

Like the uncertain colouration of a lime.

Man is a slave to time

As all men will answer to the call of time.

For the authority he exacts is divine 

Nothing happens without the consent of time. 

The past is Time

The present is Time

The future is Time

And Éghé himself is Time.. 

By:Godwin Henry Osaigbovo (Pa Shakespeare )