Tick,Tick,Tick
Time,Time,Time
Says the clock.
But there is no time
in the cosmic mind.
Tick,Tick,Tick
Time,Time,Time
Says the clock.
But time is an imitation
of the rhythm in nature.
Tick,Tick,Tick
Time,Time,Time
Says the clock
But…………….
Love is a miracle
Science cannot explain it.
Love is like a religion
You need faith to believe it.
Love is a spirit
You can be posses by it.
Love is universal
It speaks one language.
Love is like a baby
It needs time to grow.
Love is a necessity
No one survives without it.
Love is a royalty
Everyone must be its subject.
Love is a light
It brightens our lives.
Love is a divine medicine
It cures the incurable.
Love is a treasure
Those who seach for it find it.
Love is a divine nature
It makes us supernatural.
Love is an all time warrior
That men are yet to conquer.
Love has its prizes
We must pay for it to enjoy it.
Love is a wisdom
It finds application,
In all aspects of life.
Love is so lovely
That everyone loves it.
Pen in hand
Papers on the table
Thoughts in mind
And a lantern on the table.
Mind wandering
Like a breeze on the sea shore
Blank,as the after-rain sky
But rapidly searching for an answer
To the question of my essence
And there was a lantern on the table.
I know who i am
Through the light within.
I know the world
Through the consciousness within.
I know what i need
By the desire within.
I learnt to love
By the fire within.
I appreciate life
Through the guidance within.
I endure in adversity
By the power within.
There is a fire within
It never stops to burn
There is power in the fire within
That lightens
As the lantern on the table.
The Environment is the totality of atmospheric edaphic and aquatic resources of nature as well as their living,dead and non living components.Although these environmental resources and their components are always at equillibrium with themselves,the living resources cause change in this component species of the environment through their routine activities.these creates changes in the environment which result in the commensurate modification of the plant and animal community,with the most sensitive and more stressed less able to compete.Despite this the environment is dynamic and because plant and animal populations have evolved in conformity with their aggregate environment,there has resulted natural evolution through systematic adaptation to natural changes within the environment.However population explosion,urbanisation in recent times have resulted in man’s gross pollution of the environment leading to accumulation of these solid ,liquid ,gaseous and excess energy in significantly higher than normal concentrations.The effect is the drastic alteration of the pattern ,trend and mode of natural evolution causing injury and damage to environmental populations including man.In Nigeria as in other developing and developed economies, these diverse activities need to be understood in details to ascertain their implication in environmenal degradation.
URBANISATION AND POPULATION EXPLOTION.
As population increases, there is an attendant increase in the demand for housing and expansion of cities.This results in an increase in the volume and possibly the complexity of the waste generated.Similarly, the liquid wastes of various composition as well sewage will increase simultaneously.In Nigeria where few sewage facilities exist,treatment of sewage is a far cry from what obtains in developed economy where the resulting waste water is subject to bio-chemical treatment to produce cleansed water of highly acceptable quality.A very important problem accompanying this is the rise in the level of water borne diseases as a result of the contamination of drinking water sources by the waste waters.Similarly, where raw sewage is dumped into the sea as is practised in most of the coastal cities and towns, these wastes foul the receiving water media , de-oxygenating the aquatic environment, making it unsuitable for fish and other aquatic animals to survive.Also such improper disposal method for sewage create a significant odour nuisance that will result in the aquatic medium.Some of the few sewarages and sewage treatment works are hardly maintained that these easily break down spilling sewage effluent through or into aqueducts-contaminating drinking water network.Such is very visible in inland cities like Kano and Ibadan.
From SAMUEL O. ADOUN.DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,ZARIA-NIGERIA.
BLESSED BE THE TIME AND SEASON,
IN WHICH THE ETERNAL HEIR OF GLORY WAS BORN.
HE CAME TO OUR ABODE FOR A REASON,
TO SEE EXISTENCE IN LIGHT OF OUR PERCEPTION,
AND HE WITH US SHOULD DWELL IN SUCH A DUSTY CREATION.
THE SAGES IN THE HOLY WRIT HAVE SAID ALL,
AS PERTAINS THIS MOST GLORIOUS LIGHT
WHO MUST COME AND CONQUER MANY AS DUST.
THAT HE SHOULD BRING LIGHT SO BRIGHT’
TO ALL WHO HAVE FALL.
HAIL TO THIS HUMBLE KING,
WHO WAS BORN AS A BABY-GOD
BY A MARRIED VIRGIN MAID.
BEHOLD HE WHO OUR BODIES MADE
SHOULD OUR NATURE CLING.
THE CHERUBIC AND SERAPHIC HOSTS AND OTHER HOLY BEINGS,
ALL ARRAYED IN THEIR SPLENDID HEIRARCHY,
IN SILENCE THEY GAZE AT THE HAZE
OF HIS NEW EARTHLY DORMAIN.
FOR THEIR MASTER THEY MISSED,
AND HIS LOVING PRESENCE DEPARTED.
WHAT GLORIOUS FORM,WHAT INDESTRUCTIBLE NATURE
THE ETERNAL SON DISCARDS
TO TAKE ON OUR MORTAL FEATURE,
FOR TO KNOW PAIN AND DEATH
ON THIS LOWLY EARTH.
IT WAS THE INFALLIBLE BEAUTY AND MAJESTY,
WHICH THE HOLY EARTH HAD SEEN IN EDEN,
THAT SUCH DAZZLING VISIT SHOULD BE HER WELCOME.
IN HUMILITY SHE RECEIVES HER MASTER IN SUCH HER IMPURITY.
Abiku chaste as the mermaid
unstable as time
cruel as claws of death
unconquered as the sun
courageous like a lion
unreasonable as a mad man.
I am she who every mother abhors,
i fluctuate between realms
no mortal can hinder.
I cannot be spellbound,
By enchantment or devices,
Or appeased by rituals or traditions.
I am powers and invicible,
Ancient as earthly creations,
I disengage from covenants at will,
Stirs sorrow in the heart of mothers.
I am she the daugther of the oceans.
Whom i stick to is appealing to me,
They that i reject have never hurt me.
I behave by my own edict
A principle to guide my transitions
I am Abiku the chaste mermaid.
samyshades
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