Decades before your birth <br />I flooded the city with men <br />Turning about on rotten sticks <br />I did it for me <br />I knew your father wanted me in a hole <br /> <br />Now I'm alone <br />I wish I didn't eat your apple <br />Before your birth <br /> <br />I wish I built castles in air <br />My clay molds no more <br /> <br />If I could swim to the deepest of oceans <br />I would visit the mermaid <br />Perhaps be her groom <br />My heavy arms swim no more <br /> <br />Though I jumped <br />I never got to fly <br />I would have brought the clouds <br /> <br />Time took my throne <br />And time is coming for yours <br /> <br />Prints on mud never leave <br />Stamp your foot <br />While it rains<br /><br />Ajibola Tolase<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-ruled/
