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Bryan and I by Uzoma Nwaekpe Rsq.



On our dangling way

Back from the well at Bakassi,

We set apart our load

Bryan and I



And with a quick row

Towards the chappel

Dashed we into St Mulumba's



Patiently, we kneel

Many sings of the cross made

Lest we are left alone.............



The confession of sins

The communion of saints

And our lives everlasting.



On that day Bryan,

You led me through my first stations of the cross

As I joined vicariously

In the Golgothic agonies of Christ



And on that same day Bryan,

At Coscharis theatre,

It was a Jurisprudence tutorial,

I had indicated, upon Dr. G.C's prompting,

That my two questions would be asked,

One after the other.............

And the learned jurist quipped:

Do ask both of them at the same time, lets see you,

And I fired on with that critic of Prof. Hart's soft positivism...........

After class on that day Bryan,

As I sat on Shaibu's bench,

You tapped my shoulder and said to me:

"Questions are like everything else we do in life,

We ask them one after the other...."

And I could not agree more!

O'Bryno my friend.





              -In front of St Mulumba's church

               University Of Nigeria.  April, 1995.