WATER IN HIS POCKET

I

 grow up hearing people say “nothing is impossible with people” and I think it is very true. I have seen people do many incredible things and even heard people do more amazing things.  I have seen a man cutting destinies like he’s clearing grass with a cutlass. I have seen a man like a black star in the dark sky and still he could shine. I have also seen a man walking around in my neighborhood with water in his pocket. “How can a man walk around with water in his pocket?” you ask? ------- That’s what I saw my brother/sister.

Water, like people, can float one to wherever one wants to go, it can also sink one and swallow one up no matter how big.

 Water, like people, can sustain life, it can also destroy it (ask the fish).

Water, like people, are very unpredictable-- one moment they are involve in a process that build you like bricks, another moment, they are what wash you away like flood breaking down walls.

Water can get you wet down to your pants in disgrace, it can also wet down into your throat to quench ‘thirst’.

Pockets are loyal keepers for their owners. Pocket like character, follows one wherever he goes.

Pockets like character, are always open to the owner to put to use and never keeps anything from him.

 Pocket like character, can make one proud and that is when one puts his hands just to make a pose.

 Pocket like character, can bring one shame and that is when it leaks all that one has.

The pocket does all these for a simple but very important reward; the pocket does these because the owner calls it “MY POCKET”.

If water is what it is and pocket is what it is------ then it is amazing that a man will have water in his pocket. It means this man is able to have people with their very diversified, controversial and formless nature to suit his person. He has people when he wants to and keeps them when he wants to. No one talks odd of him. He can remain unnoticed for as long as he wants and the whole continent can gather for his course when he wants to be seen. This man has one of the highest honors of the Whites and won’t even wear the suit because he understands his root. He has ‘the big mouth’ but always remembers his teeth are numbered so he never bites more than he can chew. People love to be in his character because in his character he refers to people as “MY PEOPLE”.

 Wole is Integrity and Integrity is Wole. Wole Soyinka; the man with water in his pocket.