Better Than Gold
A poem by Rufai Kaothar Atinuke (Obafemi Awolowo
University)
Precious
yellow metal
Used for
making ornaments and jewellery
You are
valuable, you are good
But there is
something better than you
Gold is good
and costly
Silver is
wanted by many
But there is
something better still
Good name is
better than gold
When a
person with gold dies
He is
forgotten as soon as his gold is shared
When a
person with good name dies
He is
constantly remembered
Humans’ good
deeds are written in gold
A good name
endures and stays forever
2 comments:
A new voice from Nigeria, I guess. A thought-provoking poem
Shakespeare said as much...quite true even in modern times
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