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 </div><p>I toil night and day leaving no room for rest;<br>
For I thought to myself,<br>
‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’.<br>
So I turned an owl at night and a jaguar during the day<br>
But who gets to enjoy the toils?<br>
When hours of labour take its toils?<br>
Foolish me!</p>
<p>I have fancy cage in their assorted sizes and shapes.<br>
Like sprinkled seeds, I’ve them scattered across the sides.<br>
My four legged boxes are in their twenties,<br>
With values towering on high.<br>
I change them as a model would turn up dress.<br>
But at any moment, how many of these can I use?<br>
And upon my glamorous gory exit, whose shall they be?<br>
Poor foolish me!</p>
<p>I’m the centrifugal force of my hood.<br>
No cock crows without my name intoned.<br>
I splash my cash across the town in blues,<br>
And get thousand likes from the highs gone blues.<br>
But with my arms clasped around my cares,<br>
And never freed to care for the lows<br>
Oh foolish me!</p>
<p>From whence shall my credit flow?<br>
Oh that I may heed the creed!<br>
That my worth is neither in growing a hunch bag in my fore<br>
Where I might store grains and champagnes<br>
Nor in stocks pilling away safe in vaults of no gains<br>
But in the seeds that I scatter here and there<br>
On the rich soils of lives in toils<br>
For there lies my bliss in the here and the hereafter.</p>
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FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
