Written piece
The Pendulum of People & Relationships
Bello Toha Adeyinka
Nigeria
About this piece
Glossary: I developed the theme for this poem on the 25th of October, 2024 but began writing it on the 27th & finished on the 3rd, November, 2024. It is in relation to my being given a job by a female colleague whom had being transferred to another district but a year before.
Poem 86: The Pendulum of People & Relationships
Love they say blinds the eye from reason,
Alas! Human choices after the voices,
Like seasons not standing still on trusses,
The mind works on settings,
Feeded information; the brain steams,
But alas! much phrases; cases & places,
Many false; so little for the taking,
You said this about me!
Doesn’t make it true,
I reported that about you!
Might not stick in put,
Humans & persons; different faces,
Many things said; terms like mazes,
So little the actual cases,
Worthy of our time.
Life the pendulum swinging,
Back & forth; positive & negative,
Negative after positive streak,
The both sides of a magnet,
Repelling & grabbing,
Stiff like some adhesive,
Our engagements taking us to different places,
The weight of seamless pacing,
Might be worth the time,
Or just like a pale vine,
That disrupts the calm inside.
The world filled with vast spaces,
Different languages,
Daunting traces,
Different straight places,
Countless dialects; many shapes of land,
A long list of cultures; intermixing of races,
But despite the many faces,
One; two persons different choices,
Three; four persons different perspectives,
Our interactions our own……,
Our beliefs set the tone,
For our place in time,
The history of man; his dwellings,
Everything else between moments gone by.
The pendulum of people,
Relationships & bearings,
Really boils down,
Some simple things taken lightly,
Not really that though,
Taking too far,
Relationship & people,
ABC; 123,
Just really like counting,
As well as being mildly.