FEATURE ARTICLE

Yahaya BalogunSunday, February 18, 2018
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Arizona, USA

A TRIBUTE TO PROF. AKINWUNMI ISHOLA (POEM)



Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola

t birth,
man is born to die again!
Life is full of strives.
In a man's daily ambulatory,
Man is destined to toil, fail,
stumble, poise and win.

Man is a fallible being.
He is made to change or
inhibit his environment.
As man morphs from place
to place to eke a living,
he affects himself and other
lives in multifold.

As man reels success
to overcome failure,
he acquires wealth of knowledge
to conquer ephemera and hate.
He sees mundanity as levity.
He's contented with the unique
self in him, but unsettling
to change the world.

Man no longer fears death-
for, he has conquered the
impediments to self-consciousness
and mindfulness.
Death is a necessary end for
the ghoul and aristocratic.
Akinwunmi Isola was the latter.

The ebullient professor
touched many impeccable lives.
Omo Akin dotted his story
with Yoruba axioms, emulation
and elitism.

As Baba is subsumed
in an unending journey to eternity,
his wordrobe is embellished
with unkempt toggery and
Yoruba verbiage.
We the students of his life
will share his academic
Will full of wisdom and Yoruba
lexicon.

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