Where art thou gone, DANTE ALIGHERI, where hast thou gone? Thou searcheth again and again the Cantos of thy dreaded "Divine Comedy", Since thou gatherest names and images of stalwart humans, To eternally engrave them in Milton's "bottomless perdition", And thou harnesseth them still with Milton's "adamantine chains and penal fire", Thou shouldst search no more, Dante Aligheri, For him thou dost now searcheth Frolicks with the Olympian gods and goddesses, And in the cheerful Elysian Fields, Kitts Mbeboh now rollicks, With Tambi Jot, Dr.Lambo, Dr.Joseph Ngongwikuo, Dr. Wilson Ebot, Dr.Hansel Eyoh, Grace Gwanyalla Daiga. They deserveth their places with the Olympian Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, Apollo, Achilles, Hercules, For in verse and prose they serveth them well on earth. Thou shouldst shut thine Cantos of Hell in thy "Divine Comedy" for good For Mbeboh now feedeth on nectar and ambrosia. Thou, oh Dante Aligheri shouldst open thy cantos to the divine Elysain Fields Where gods, goddesses dwelleth, There, men, women of refined minds shallst dwell. With no presence of fiends Oh, Kitts Mbeboh, thy admirers now mourneth, Sitting by the shores thou erstwhile loveth, At dawn, The sea bringeth hopes amidst fears and battered hearts, As tides gently cometh ashore, Tenderly, soothingly cool breezes of Zephr, Dost now comforteh us... Yet we continueth to mourn. At dusk, The setting sun envelopeth the calm sea with a massively widening spectre of golden reflection, Wafted by the quietly dancing waves to the shore, Where we seateth. We straineth our eyes far unto the horizon, As sea gulls playeth with clouds and calm sea, Over our heads, And discern with wonder the beauty of Saturn's colours, Caressing the waves of the sea. As the hugely diviely tapestry of colours cometh ashore, Our collective minds'eyes discern silhouettes of human forms, Resplendent in Oylmpian garbs,strideth the clouds of brilliant colours on the waters of the sea, And we wondereth, Kitts Mbeboh and company must that silhoutte be. Samuel Mukwelle Akale