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From Orhoakpor With Love
By Ochuko Tonukari
There is a young lady from Orhoakpor
who’s made Akpor very sweet for me
She makes it with a fire
that takes me higher
The Omote Oyoyovwi from Orhoakpor
This Eguono is very strange indeed
It fills the heart and overflows
I only know that I must cede
And embrace it, I suppose
Our Ehware was an Ungbiku-able Avwere
An idea that is hyperlinked
Of sweetness and warmth, a cold transform
When on paper it is inked
And yet my love is so precise
for a vastness so diffuse
and so I must, myself, devise
a meaning – I must pick and choose
Blind lover trying to understand
What in this Akpor makes me love this Omote from Orhoakpor.
Oh, I think the answer is Avwere,
From Avwere we came into existence.In Akporonly Avwere we desire to seek.At the end of our journey’s close,Into Avwere we retire.
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