Contemplation on the Odu Odi Meji

As comforting as religious ritual is

It is simply the codification of

Something that helps us

Commune with God

To say that there is only one way

Or that the path remains immutable

Is sheer lunacy

Life has only one constant

Change

As the world around us

Evolves

We must not allow ourselves

To become stagnant

Like the still pond

Unchanged rituals and ideas

Breed disease

The moving river always

Finds it’s way to the

Sea 

Contemplation on the secret of Ofun Meji (eeepa odu)

I was told
To dance for joy
To give praises to God
Years passed and I felt nothing
Perhaps God did not answer because
I was not using the right name
I had to look deep within
To realize I needed
To find my own
Secret name
For God
It finally worked
So I must take my leave
I’m meeting a good friend for tea

Contemplation on the Odu Otura Okanran

Your eyes
Haunting pockets of ice
Hide the glacier underneath
A siren bewitching the simple
Hearts of men
I dislike that I have
Fallen under your spell
That I know under
Different circumstance you would have
Passed me by without a second look
Or even a first
Yet still I yearn
I’m trying not to judge
We are who we are
What saddens me is seeing the
Fissures in my own character that let me feel
Less than
I know the greatest wisdom sometimes lies
In the torn pages of forgotten books
That as the colors fade
The words remain
Revealing their true worth
Perhaps it is I that will haunt you
Perhaps I give myself too much credit
In the end
When we shed our skins
All that will be left are the words of a few
Lucky souls
Until even those become
Stardust