At The Kakadu, Lagos, 1967

We were dancing 

“I don’t know why

I don’t know why

I don’t know why

I try”

Fela Ransome Kuti’s Afro beat highlife band

Fela played the trumpet

time touches, erodes

beauty inspires me

twilight gleams

while light fades in the West

I don’t know why

what once was unwritten

takes me onward

one page a day

love’s debt still unpaid

overdue

an accumulating sum

silver sixpences 

I'll throw at the moon

there once was a dawn

when we kissed 

farewell

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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