Lonesome

Lonesome is a poem by Nigerian writer, educationist and public administrator Muhammad Dattijo Usman. The poem was published in Sands of Time by the National Library of Poetry, USA, in 1997.

This record presents a 2026 digital archival edition prepared from a surviving copy preserved in the Muhammad Dattijo Usman Archive. The edition includes bibliographic information, a public facsimile of the surviving document and a diplomatic transcription intended to preserve the wording, capitalization and punctuation of the archival source.

Original publication: Sands of Time, National Library of Poetry, USA, 1997. ISBN 1-57553-424-X.

Archive reference: MDU-P003.