Tonart: Ab major•
Verse 1
Ab
I travel home to remember the sound
of morning
I choose the evening to pray
Eb
I remember this as it is
Ab
For when the city returns
When the sound of the green- line
trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surround my senses diminishing this
version of my imagination
Verse 2
I will remember this The silence and the night time
Ab
I will remember red sand on bare feet
My skin sticky glistening in the sun
My hair like untamed wool
I will remember the air thick
Verse 3
of Africa
Ab
I will remember my mother in the night
And the children she cares for
I will see them
once more as they play
Peeking at me from the crack in the
doorway
I will remember my aunti- - her famous Jeloff rice
Verse 4
Ab
Asking
me in flawless Ishan native tongue
"Ofure...Onegbe?"...How is everything...you're too skinny"
And I, struggling to keep up, clumsily
responding
"Butayay aunti?" That means, I
don't know what you just said
Verse 5
Ab
I will remember the market place The women
selling smoked
corn and plantain
The taste of moy- moy and egusi
The sound of Doris pounding yam
Fresh oranges from the Arrimogiga farm
Verse 6
Ab
When Boston city lights mask the majesty of my favorite constellations
I will remember the moon...
Pregnant and smiling
Because I am a poet
As if she knows that I am
Invested enough to write
about it
Perhaps because I am a poet
I will remember the unseen
Verse 7
Ab
The homeless and the beggars, the roadside wanderers,
People just trying to survive
Children roadside selling cell
phones and unwanted trinkets
I will remember the local roads
Gb
Beaten and eroded by rain and time
Ab
Huts built beside a 15 story hotel
skyrise
So many having so much
Neighbors with others
living with nothing
But the hand- me- downs on their
backs
And the realities of poverty
crushing their
Promises of tomorrow
Verse 8
I leave behind my rose colored glasses In my grandfather's village
Ab
Because when my plane finally lands
back in Boston
I want to believe that Nigeria changes
Gb
Ab
me every time
These moments teach me how to recognize
what we take for granted
Constant electricity and clean water
Hospitals on every corner
The opportunity to rise beyond
our native borders
These are the details that risk a fate
of becoming lost or forgotten
Like sounds of the morning
For when the city returns
When the sound of the green- line
trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surrounds my senses diminishing this
version of my imagination
I will remember this
I need to remember this
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