Tunde is a veteran teacher, aspiring farmer, veteran banker, and budding writer.

130-word Tributes to FirstBank @130

by Babatunde Adesokan

An elephant does not turn out dwarfish,
130 giant strides woven into fabrics of
our society. Can you feel the footfalls of
Ajanaku echoing through nations
in jubilant symphony?
Door-to-door, dawn-to-dawn
sewing the economic camaraderie
of brimming cities, of forgotten villages
A sojourn of exceptional service
from infancy’s crawl
to this new chapter spun.
This elephant never ages
This elephant never breaks
nor runs at sight of dogs
Triumphant over brambles, over hedges
over recapitalization that swallows peers
she walks with pride & purpose
EPIC among the rank of animals
FirstBank, may your foot be planted
where customers & competitors come to drink
May you march on even if the market vine
is as thick as palm tree
May 130 strides be just a crawl
to what your future holds.

Babatunde Adesokan writes from Oyo State, Nigeria. He works with Firstbank. He is a lover of poetry; a lover of everything that breathes poetry.