I saw beauty

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for Ajet Nurdin Adewale and Anastasia Ajetunmobi who just taught me what beauty means by the birth of their son

I

teach me again, Sire, what beauty means.

I earned, learned the lessons, passed the tests

but the beauty you taught me left

and the markings, smiles it carved

on my features are no more

denuded, eroded  by

my calumny and irresponsibilities.

I stand 6 feet tall

and now see beauty in the most ephemeral-

cleaved, winking busts; crookedly smiling butts

belly-buttons, pierced, peeping, mischievously, from below tank-tops.

I still see wrong though my eyes are spectacled.

II

I saw his picture on my wall

and my eyes spoke tears while I stared

at this beauty in a shawl grown from

          a single pollen planted in a loving soil-

I can see him now, a sweet smelling rose bush smiling from his cot.

I know what this beauty is.