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# Ode
- URL: https://southpole.blog/ode-mobolaji-aremu-adewale/
- Published: 2026-11-10T15:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-10T15:04:00.000Z
- Description: A new poem by Mobolaji ‘Aremu’ Adewale
- Author: Mobolaji "Aremu" Adewale
- Tags: ~Culture, :Poetry

If by some miracle,  
Proctored by a far away god,  
Zeus or Shiva moved me;

Translate my essence through time, not space.

Give young, feeble I a chance,  
To meet my progenitors.

When they were twenty-something,  
Learning the lessons they instil,  
Hiding hardships as I do now,  
Smiling through beaten eyes as I do still,  
Laughing through cracks of pain unseen.

If I should be so privileged,  
To spend a single cycle with them,  
Equal in age,  
I feel they’d enjoy my company,  
And I theirs.

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