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 </div><p></p>Hello, Goodbye.
<p>He’s on air now,<br>
Wrong use, I know but my choice still<br>
He’s airing to that place<br>
Where everything like the transfiguration will change.</p>
<p>I didn’t want to know<br>
A call said no<br>
And here I am<br>
Keeping watch.</p>
<p>I shouldn’t dwell therein<br>
My mind disagrees<br>
And as I reluctantly swallow like pills this afternoon pap<br>
Spoonful after spoonful<br>
My subconscious records the minutes for me<br>
As they slowly waste away.</p>
<p>Right now it says 14:44<br>
And just like the last time, and the one before that<br>
I do the remainder math.</p>
<p>I look for the sweetness in life<br>
Only to take solace in more milk<br>
And sugar<br>
Greedily I pour and drink away.</p>
<p>I dial the number<br>
Just to kill the doubt<br>
Knowing it is in vain<br>
And finding it switched off.</p>
<p>These words are hard to say<br>
Like the last time I saw him<br>
But I must utter them<br>
And be gone too.</p>
<p>So Goodbye, when you see him for I know you surely will<br>
Tell him I ask, what becomes of his office<br>
I don’t want to see<br>
Any strange name there.</p>
<p>Tell him I said<br>
If he remembers me<br>
Let him smile and make a wish<br>
For life is short and everything is soon lost.</p>
<p>Tell him I said<br>
He should remember his family<br>
And show much love<br>
No matter how distant, to them.</p>
<p>Tell him I said<br>
Friends are soon foes<br>
And foes become friends<br>
He should be mindful of friends and foes alike.</p>
<p>Goodbye, tell him to not bring any white woman back<br>
Especially those with the silicon in their breasts<br>
Skin deep surgeries<br>
And guns in their purses.</p>
<p>Tell him we love Chioma, Chika<br>
And what’s-her-name at the excursion place<br>
Tell him to think of them with much joy and love<br>
And to desist from that which is Precious, at all times.</p>
<p>Tell him to not lose faith no matter what comes knocking<br>
For the torrents and tides will come<br>
And like animals let loose growl and roar<br>
Threatening to rip off his very existence.</p>
<p>Tell him his faith can stand the test of time<br>
Whether of tornadoes, tsunamis or hurricanes<br>
He is strong<br>
Goodbye make sure you tell him that.</p>
<p>Tell him I said<br>
I will try to not think of him<br>
And to suffer from that mind disease<br>
Where I remember his name no more.</p>
<p>Tell him my prayers are with him<br>
Now and always<br>
And tell him I must go on<br>
And him too.</p>
<p>Tell him to always be happy<br>
To guard with jealousy his joy<br>
And tell him to kill depression<br>
For it can make him sleep with the enemy.</p>
<p>Finally Goodbye, tell him I sent you<br>
And tell him I said ‘Hello.’</p>
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