Atop the mountain of the mind
The dragon
In me went to sleep
Slumbering to stupor
And weakness
And destruction
Time sacrifices
Clock in clock out
Won't wake him
He dozed
The dragon in me dozed
And dozed and dozed
And I thought him dead
Dead, unwaking
Unmoving, useless
Dragon with out fire
His fire went out
When he chose to sleep
Eons after eons
While I grow up
Struggling without the breath of fire
Without wings
Without claws
Without tails and scales
All hope extinguished
Dreams seeped out and mix with the wind
Blood went cold
Like an animal in Antarctica or
Siberia, but here in Nigeria
Twenty...