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CONSCIOUS - - Olaolu Lawrence Ayeni
I am as a walking corpse
A living dead moving yet static
Music blares at high decibels in my ears
My heartbeat vanished retarding beyond here
For a minute I forget all my troubles
I'm creating music even
better than Beethoven in heaven
I'm living as one not aware of himself
I’m in a world of my own detached from all
but me and myself away from my troubles.
How can I write music notation on a staff with eighty lines
When all Handel used was five for the Hallelujah Chorus?
How can I scribble on the staff with 26 letters A-Z
When Laz Ekwueme only uses only 7 letters A-G?
I am in a world of mine
Aware of all things yet knowing nothing
I am even not sure if I am a man
I am not sure if DENRELE is a woman
Yet my Adam's apple is EViE's delight
- Olaolu Lawrence Ayeni
EVie- play with earliest woman Eve representing womanhood and Ivie female Nigerian name,Denrele- Nigeria entertainer dresses
and acts like a woman, Beethoven one of the leading global world composer and Laz Ekwueme ( Nigeria music professor ,
composer and music icon),Staff a form of music notation using 5lines and four spaces with alphabets A-G representing musical
sounds
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