ODE: "FIRST LETTER" BY LASISI VICTOR

Brotherly,

Your plight and songs of hardship

Remains my awful trauma,

I know how hard it was,

And always have been.

Every pain you ever went through

Removes a string of bone from my rib.

Thus I want to extend to you

My sincere empathy and undieing love.

Always remember that

You are an eagle amidst thousand doves,

You are not meant to walk 

But to soar high in face of the skies.

The Lagosity in you remains unwashed

You are an indestructible particle of Lagos,

You are a product from the Centre of Excellence,

You have in your veins the 'Blood of Old Lagos Empire'.

Till your broken wings heal,

Never try to give up.

Till we see again

In time and with Chance.

Yours Brotherly.

© LASISI VICTOR OLUWADAMILARE

- Nigeria 

The bard sympathies with someone who is almost giving up on his dreams. He advises his reader to develop the consistent spirit of Lagosians in Nigeria.