11/10/2017
Tender! Tender!! Tender!!!
Remember me when so young,
And of a toddler,
One, two, or three years old you wonder,
Mother and father who sought for a fertile ground to water this small toddler,
Where is tender?
Oh that place of beautiful gardens with bright flowers and shinning petals,
Just like daffodils,
Oh tender the trending soil for mighty troy of great emperor,
Yes that’s tender.
Where is this tenderious tender?
Ijoko seeks for your hide out,
Ogun state needs your light out,
Nigeria shouts for your help out,
Hmmn, the world cries for your break out,
Where is tender?
My tender heart hallows for your tender hands,
I hear they have found this tender,
I hear also that this garden has steps of great ladders,
great ladders of leaders,
I hear mammi and bammi has also found this garden of great ladders which I shall step,
At my tender step.
My toddling feet planted at the garden of tender,
My growth in step I climb this ladder,
Mammi ati bammi plants me here,
So I opened my ears to listen to the echoes in the well,
And it’s hell at tender,
Numbering and murmuring,
Alphabet and humming,
Why has mammi brought me here,
Why has bammi left me there,
Why do I have to stay here, year and year and another year,
Oh tender!,
This garden I thought that blossomed beyond the Eden is like hell,
Oh tender!
Seers of tender,
Have you seen me now,
My younger and toddling years has become older,
See, and get flabbergasted,
What a great flower of tender I have become,
Seers, you never knew that this garden had great gardeners that,
Watered me with education,
Manure me with civilization,
Cared me with motivation,
Weeded away my indiscipline,
Stirred me with discipline,
Medicine me with sanity,
Purge away my carnality,
Monitored my graduality,
Help my gradity,
And,
Bless my spirituality.
And now with my courage so high to face the lions of life,
And now,I stand as an iroko tree in the society of windly blown wind,
And proudly I can say,
I am the sky that was tendered to step beyond the challenges of life,
And they ask,
Who is tender?
How is tender?
What is tender?
Where is tender?
Ladies and gentle men,
Boys and girls,
Men and women,
Students and parents,
Home and abroad,
As a complete product of this great garden which I step,
And climbed to greater height,
With a standing ovation that answers all trembling questions,
I present to you the beautiful,
TENDER STEP INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
WRITTEN BY
DON NUEL