Friday, February 4, 2011

Poem: Outstretched Hand by Okee Igboegbunammadu Onenulu-Ozo


Outstretched Hand*



On a road less-taken

A journey began

The Sky gloomy...

 

Ground-festered, strewn

With dregs -papers flowing

Faces strange and smiling

 

A dame looking aghast

In disbelief, pale with distrust


"O’ God, what a people!"

So depraved yet so faithful

So in prayer straight


Chest pressed

Arm outstretched

Making invocations...


Come to me now my God, 
My light and all that I crave for
What else do I seek?

In thee I persist
So come now 
Give me the graces I resist

My Lord, inebriate me NOW
With thy water, wash me
With thy armor, cover me

Bid me come
To the luxury paradise
Of thy wondrous wonderland

Bid me go through this narrow-winded
Dangerous-safety Home road
Whatever it be...

My Lord, give me THY hand!

         *Dedicated to Felicia Henderson

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ERETZ is a man on the sunny-side of life, in search of greater perhaps. Born of an ancient Hebrew race known as Igbo (Africans call them BIAFRANS) his DNA shows as much "Y" Kohenite Chromosomes as that of the Israeli Jews. Somewhat a polymath, ERETZ is an interdisciplinary, multi-skilled expert who uses cross-sectional experiences for service delivery. He's a Motivational Speaker with a loving capacity to help and improve people’s social-expansion experience. He's always joyful in his Christ-conscious predilection for change that is both pedestal and pivotal -that results inexorably from and within the inebriated propensity of "ASK," delved from Matt 7:7 to mean: A = Ask; S = Seek; K = Knock. DOWN-TO-EARTH: He was born a twin in a fairly large and loving African family. Eretz is a single-minded individual with good sense of humor (it will not be immodest to call him a chattered libertine). He is simple yet principled. A 'trilingual poet:' Music is his past time. "Music is primarily emotional and not an intellectual appeal." So all the genres (the vaudevillian music hall) appeals; from soft melodic to the rowdy melodramatic with the exaggerated pomp and pageantry.