Suddenly I saw myself
Sitting beside the avatar himself.
Together we watched a big screen
Pictures, Letters but No Audio
Here again the Man, same Man with a symbolic bushy white hair
Words: I came, I saw, And I conquered

Inside the dream, I contemplated
I am not a prophet neither am I a son of a prophet, But
Is the avatar about to be demystified?
Is the Man Died about to put on immortality?
Is the earth about to lose a Nobel prize winner?
Questions, questions, questions with no answer except
Words: I came, I saw, And I conquered

Then It dawned on me
This may be heaven speaking to the son of Man
You are here, You Are seeing: But Are you conquering?
Life is a tale, is your life a useful story?
Life is a race, are you really running?
Life is a stage; are you playing your part?
Then tears welled up in my eyes, still sitting beside orisa himself
I wept, in the dream

Suddenly I woke up, naked under my mosquito net
With a renewed determination to see and conquer too
I seem to care less,
Baba is not too young to join the ancestors
Brother Jero himself may go to the other side of the river
But I will live, I will see, and I will conquer

The forests may dance, I will not be moved
The Lion with his jewel may cross my path; I refuse to stop
Even If I walk in a forest of a thousand demons, I will not be afraid
Till I can say comfortably, just like the avatar himself
Watching the screen and nodding satisfactorily without the interpreters
I came, I saw, and I conquered