At Sixty-Seven
(for: Col. Oladele Babajamu rtd.)
By: AbdulHafeez Oyewole
You stand
like a baobab after rain,
medals breathing softly
on your chest of seasons.
Your pen-
a tireless masquerade,
has walked through barracks and books,
teaching words
the discipline of light.
Soldier of duty,
keeper of memory,
you turned poems into bugles
for a waking nation.
Now young voices
gather beneath your name
like birds around water.
At sixty-seven (o'clock),
and time still removes its cap
when you pass.
• AbdulHafeez T. Oyewole is a Nigerian writer, poet, media practitioner, and public relations expert. He serves as Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Kwara Chapter. He was the pioneer Head of News and Current Affairs at Diamond 88.7 FM, Ilorin, and formerly headed the News and Current Affairs Department of Albarka 89.9 FM. He is currently Chief Press Secretary of Kwara State College of Nursing Sciences, Oke-Ode and Public Relations Officer of the Owa-Kajola Community Development Association.
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