Dayò Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, content writer, graphics designer and calligrapher.

ÀLÀKÉ

À-l-à-k-é, when I first gulped the litres

of your beauty through the funnel of my eyes

i knew I was under fire, your petrol tanker

has set my wool heart ablaze and I am in ruins.

through the ink of your eyes and the pages

of your skin; the Visual Art of your schoolgirl’s dress

and the Mathematics of your lips’ red

my brain is short of Elementary Science.

i love you Àlàké, not because of your palm-oil skin

nor your pizza voice, nor because of the taste

of wine that drips into my ears 

at the purples of your steps, but for this:

the thought of you fills a thousand drum;

and chases the mosquitoes away

the juicy sound of your name, À-l-à-k-é,

perfumes my Jakande air day and night.

Contributor’s Bio

Dayò Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, content writer, graphics designer, and calligrapher. He is a continuing student of nature, tradition, history, and Olódùmarè. Law is his lawfully wedded wife, art and poetry are his mistresses. He writes from a small box in Abuja, Nigeria.

Dayò Ayílárá is his name and not a pseudonym.

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