An Ululation from Unilag For Oluchi Anekwe From An Akokite

An Ululation from Unilag

For Oluchi Anekwe

By Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji (Mr. Samitude)

a moment of mourning

another time of transition

another amber burnt ashen

another dove that walked on a ravenous road

into the anthills of the ancestors

another apple plucked from the eye of the earth

you’ve become the rib of reminiscence

confined forever to the penitentiary of the past

let this poem free you from the manacles of memory

let it be the oxygen for you to breathe again

Unilag says adieu with a heavy heart

farewell, Oluchi, farewell