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.