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A Great Poem To Chinua Achebe by oxfordman(m): 11:34pm On Mar 25, 2013
FROM HAFEEZ SHONAIKE AKOLAWOLE
TO
PROFFESSOR CHINUA ACHEBE;
THE LIVING DEAD

the living DEAD
in all your days HERE
everywhere you were HEARD

your words that SPREAD
changed minds of HUNDRED
woke brains that are DEAD

people heard of your DEATH
they thought it has com to END
"everything has fallen apart" people SAID

oh! that might be true , but not by your DEATH
you put it in balance, not by your BREATH
but by the words from your HEAD

those words that rises the sun at the time of SUNSET
those words that will forever be SIGHTED

your soul might be DEAD
but your words have defeated DEATH

you let not gold to take off your self RESPECT
you have lived so WELL
that your living even pleases DEATH

the historians of the LEGEND
forgeting your dids, is what they would not DARE

in the quest to GREATNESS
you are perfectly a role MODEL

if the living still tap from your INTELLIGENCE
truly, you are the living DEAD
IN PEACE YOU REST;
PROFFESSOR CHINUA ACHEBE.

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