Inamorata! – Adewale Sobowale

We can’t ever fightOnce love is tight.Got my matrix,From your cities.Love you to stuporFor crimes that pourOut of your navelWhich is a Babel!Commit capital crime,Simple matter of bribe.Now you’re piss poor,Palmier you were before.You whiff like ganja,Crave you more, Naija! @as 021418

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Lenten Season! – Adewale Sobowale

Fast for forty days,Masses fast everyday.Awe ti b’awe nle,Biribiri gan la ngba! We already spent,Without being sentAeons in fast,Cos we lack. So when you sayWe must pay,Through fasting,We are smiling. Already we’re hungeredCos we ponderedOver nothing to eat,We have no wheat. We are prayingWhile picking,The left oversNot to be picked by others! Dikko was prophetic!…

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Demoncrazy! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Daily reality Turn by turnWe dey run.Great idea I have,Give them crumbs,They’ll worship you.Little knowingWhat you’re givingBelongs to all. Militocrazy!Khakistocrazy!Agbadacrazy!Civilianocrazy!Chopintocrazy! All na craze!A no wan craze o?OK!Peopletocracy!Massestocracy!Who is straight? If you no wan craze,Stop the gaze.Free your sense,Stop being dense.Must we dieFrom their lies? @ as 021318

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Múìbátù – Adewale Sobowale

“Àdèwalé ọlọ́rẹỌkọ MúìbátùÌwà rẹ wù mí oKáàbọ̀ ṣé dáda lo déAdewálé ọlọ́rẹ.” Even, before I came to be:I had known her:Sweet, caring, tender,and winsome to behold!My paternal family knew her through songs!Her song was always sung to me!She never naggedNeither was she ever jealous!Her family never asked for bride priceSince I never met them!In fact,…

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