Cobhams Asuquo-The Extraordinary Gift Of Blindness. The winds were soft T’was midnight We were gathered in an amphitheatre The venue was OAU,Ile-Ife The guest artiste was invited over A lady guided him to the podium The voice I heard Soothingly struck my spinal cord I shivered with excitement My mouth agape His fingers even stroked the keyboard His name-Cobhams! As the programme ended We shuffled to our dormitories Everyone talking about Cobhams Saying the little they knew ” He was born blind” I overheard someone say…who knows for sure? I froze in my tracks Tears welling in my eyes His song filled our hearts with light Light blindingly bright He definitely can’t be ordinary I concluded as I slept that night The blind had a dream He saw beautiful days ahead He fed on blindness All to grow into an enigma He lived in a world of ordinary people The extraordinary happened One of his secondary school seniors Who described him as very likable Told of a day he won’t forget When a lady named Mariam duped a ‘roomie’ Cobhams,a junior ‘roomie’,heard about it He later turned it to music in the room ….”I saw Mariam…panparanpapapa Mariam beautiful from head to feet When you see her you should run She isn’t a girl for you to love When she says that she loves you Don’t listen,it’s not true But when you miss her You are gonna miss your wallet too” They all enjoyed as he sang He,preparing for conquest,as David did in the wild Thanks for rising above blindness All to give us meaning Thanks for showing us the way With the beautiful light you bear I wish you can see and read all this by yourself But then,thank God you can’t Without Blindness There wouldn’t have been Cobhams We wouldn’t have heard Rooftop MC singing ‘Lagimo’ Asa’s ‘Jailer’ would have been a dream in the jail To you,Blindness,we say thank you For giving us the mystery extraordinaire called Cobhams
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:08:36 +0000