Machines of industryMust be made greasyBy the labourOf poor vapour-Emitting third worlders,While the ordersAre being enjoyed,Their ladies being toyedWith by their shylockRulers, who should hemlockHave taken. But forPeople lacking in force.Chase the bastards!E le awon alakora!Let them know,That we knowWhy they are cheating,While we’re bleeding. @ as 072718
Is it not a wonder,Raining without thunder?Vultures are gathered,Season of the reaper! Frogs aren’t croaking,Lions not roaring!Frogs are rather weeping,With lions crying! Due to rat-a-tat-tat!Of the extra largeEnvelope of cowry,We took as bribery! What we’d sownHad become grown,To an Ajantala,We hardly matter! Ah- a colonel!Then- a dan sanda!They were wasted,As we grunted! We just are…
When a masquerader chases you, whip-clad: Just persevere as there’s no monopoly of fatigue: It happens to eatthlings, just like extraterrestrials! There’s this peace, silence – graveyard-like! While few moneybags enjoy commonwealth! Poverty-ridden majority – live in squalor! Few escape into refugeedom! Majority attempt escaping, squalid life, organizing, mobilizing into groups fighting for release from…
O se ose!Friendly with everyone;A foe with nobody!True Ijegba you were,if an Ijesa by bloodEgba by residence andaffiliation could be so described! Mo ti r’Ogun lo foso!Truly!If how we mourn the dead,dead as dodo,we care for ill-healthed;none, and I mean nonewill the grim reaper answer! Yeepa!Everyone’s too busydoing nothingfor the ailing to care! Mo ti…
Sango can be heard thundering in the skies; Oya, winding and storming here on earth! Ogun, powering furnace in forge! Yet, we turn deaf ear! What’s more, we turn blind eye, pretending not to see! If we did see or never lost our auditory system, did we also lose our sense of speech? We continue…
Some uncouth fellow; opens their trap; says they to a k-legged; your load’s askew! Man, tired, famished, undernourished; in exasperation, replies, look at my physique! Babies in womb; if not in apparent denial, know most of our problems; stem from the roots! With situation unfounded; human lives scattered; we imbibe petulantly; fabulous absurdities! Deceits are…
Different backgrounds;Meet we in differing-Even if culture’s same-Timezones! Differing ages,Experiences differ,Of course, sex! We together get-Each a’old age!Dusk of life! Chums we become,Able to collate-Different experiences! Yeah, you do,I believe I do,Together we do,Make us spark! @ as 061819
