Light By Light | Olasupo Ayooluwa

Tales from moonlight,
How hope showered and shimmered
Upon dying knights;
Today the sun has risen;
Fringed blue flowers burgeon again.

But should we become avid drinkers,
Drinking ourselves to stupor,
Making merry over medals won miles back?

I suppose we should not assuage our hunger for yonder;
By unbuckling our belts till the next loom booms,
Stripping us of strength again.

So let all the heroes that wear local laurels not enter the cave of complacency;
Let them look on to the Nobel prize
Slated for them before the walls of today;
Let them take lessons from Nova.

Poet's note: This poem was written two months ago. It is intended to encourage young and old who have been and are being successful not to become complacent with trickles of their achievements. They should seek for greater growth, higher and wider horizons .