Okwaraji

a football hero

Titled: Okwaraji

I was unborn when Okwaraji died,

serving,

on the playground of my favourite childhood team:

the precocious thought of my adult being,

as shadowy as Makanaki.

Samuel Okwaraji,

A Nigerian TV face; carved

with his Ph.D head; yoked

for a symbol of an heroic example,

I marvelled about,

while reading Punch newspaper