SANDS OF TIME

 

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By Arayomi Samad Oluwatosin

 

 

A man's dawn shall be his end!

If he endeavors to dwell in idle frivolities, 

Hence, before the hourglass runs out

Let man make amends and set forth his priorities

 

I know of a man with the eyes of an owl

But sometimes look and yet do not see, 

His ears as wide as an elephant's

But still cannot listen,

Oh! Wake the lazy man from his slumber

For a shallow mind is lackadaisical to reason,

The hourglass pours, ‘tick tock' the time says

Let us reminisce! And go back to the old days

 

To those forsaken times

When nature has not lost its meaning, 

Creativity as a pen in a writer's hand

To build a start from this late beginning.

 

 

Arayomi Samad Oluwatosin is a passionate poet, he graduated from the university of Obafemi Awolowo where he studied sociology and anthropology. He currently lives in Oyo state; he also recently published his first poetry book on Wattpad titled "The Epilogue of A Narcissist Woman".