Special

By Frank Bolaji Irawo

A gift to world

A unique expression

Peculiar to the core

None like you in all the earth

From your tip to your toes

No recycled mould in sight

You are truly extraordinary

There is no other in the many billions

Who can rightfully claim to be you

Your call, if you accept

To display the splendour

Of a masterful creation

There is only one you

All others can only imitate

You the only original

Here to reflect

This manifold glory

The way only you can

Eternity waited for you

To reveal to the world

The unique creation that is you

Completing yet another part

Of this exquisite tapestry

Bringing us your variant

Of exquisite fragrance

That we may celebrate you

The only you there will ever be

Hear the hollow sound

Resonating from the emptiness

Trying so hard to be accepted

In the land of clones

Try as much as you may

It never seems to be enough

To impress the unimpressed

The bar just keeps rising

Hear this plea, heed this call

Return to us, the one you stole

That we may celebrate

The greater One in you

In Him, you are always accepted

No hoops to jump through

Loved unconditionally

With such unrelenting intensity

Return to us, the real you

The one and only you

Just as you are

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God--you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration--what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

(Psalms 139:13-15 MSG