And I lived in this longing wild,
Dear the flesh of the earth bud so much
Her leaf fanned in my heart and my hand
Thrilling is the tendrils as a light of a torch
In this my soul beams from my flesh
Taking me home in this longing genuinely
The fumes of the heat spurs and spreads
The heat is felt like laughing dunes staring calmly
Inside this narrowed path life fanned me across
The light shines and part me from my flesh quietly
~Martin Ijir
Nigeria