UNTIL SEPTEMBER 12, 2024: MOHBAD" BY AJAKAYE STRIDA

Until today, 

I never believed you vacated the earth,

my mentor, 

if I were given a magic wand for a single action,

I will run to your corpse and raise you.

I never saw you 

but your voice is my morning tea.

Even when the earth 

gets modern than you left,

your earthly memories will be my daily bath.

© RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE

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2024

The poet persona remembers the musical icon, Mr. Ilerioluwa Aloba. The speaker does not believe his death in 2023 until September 12, 2024. The voice has never seen Mohbad but says the latter will be in her heart forever.