A Reflection
True love
Is God-centred
True love is white.
True love,
True love,
True love
Is ever pure.
This meeting of ours
Will ever green
In my memory remain.
This is a going
That is not a parting,
But a going and a coming
That strengthens our love.
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA
*Written in a cab on my way to Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.
January 28, 2000.