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Martins IyoboyiBirthday MessageOne for celebration, today arrives;the twinkling chance has fadedinto the murk of the gliding moment,and the bells ring in grief.Mockers sneer with tongues of evil,dead hopes lose count in the brain--hopeless abyss mocks the progress.Sing, sing, a message for youfinding your heart a bliss in belief,woes nearer by fading minutes.Messages bitter and true,street-deaths, hanging news,proscriptions of the estate,men and women in tears.A shrill call for sanityechoes from countless lambsfalling in each other’s suspicious gazeswith betrayals from the crowd –the lamb hunted, harmless, armlesswaiting for the smiling steel.101