Poetic tributes for Emir Ado Bayero

When a mighty elephant fallsEven distant hillsAnd tall mountainsMiles awayAre wrappedIn fearsAnd remain In tremorsThe soaring grassesAnd all the ants Grief in pool of pains When a noble king diesThe pains cut deep beneath the layers,Oh, it is the soul, not the skin that tastes The true sharpness of the bladeIndeed, death is but a sour […]

When a mighty elephant falls
Even distant hills
And tall mountains
Miles away
Are wrapped
In fears
And remain
In tremors
The soaring grasses
And all the ants
Grief in pool of pains
 
When a noble king dies
The pains cut deep beneath the layers,
Oh, it is the soul, not the skin that tastes
The true sharpness of the blade
Indeed, death is but a sour honey!
Oh, the Emir of emirs, adieu!
 
The Gloomy Friday
 (For Alh. Dr. Ado Bayero, CFR, LLD, JP, and dedicated to Abdullahi Ado Bayero)
By Bello Sagir Imam

The sudden monster*
Paid his unwanted visit
Against Kanawa’s darling
On the gloomy Friday
 
Hearts sank
Eyes reddened
Bodies paralyzed
On the gloomy Friday

O, the Thirteenth Fulani monarch,
When we craved for you most
You sealed the monarchy
On the gloomy Friday

Bakan Dabo sir,
Your 362 seeds And your legacies
 Immotalize you
 After the gloomy Friday

Birnin Dabo earthquaked
Mini Africa followed suite
 Sun and moon eclipsed
 On the gloomy Friday

King of Saudi wept
Queen of England sobbed
Along side their subjects
On the gloomy Friday

Nigeria was flooded with tears
African pillar fell
World decoration waned
On the gloomy Friday

Oh Allah! We beseech In Your Beauteous Names
Admit SAN Kano Into the first class garden
I raise my thumb For the seasoned banker
The new emir turbaned
May you reign well.

*Sudden monster neither refers to the ‘death’ nor to the ‘Angel of death’ but only refers to the ‘loss’.