Aren’t we all
in birthday suits?
Adam and Eve were lucky
they were covered with leaves!
Our own privacy is nakedness!
We go about
running from pillar to post,
yet hardly finding
true meaning of our beings!
Would it be right to say,
All men are equal?
An emphatic no!
Equality of man
is but an ideal.
Men,
through actions and inactions
are making it unidealistic
and unfeasible!
Is there any rule of law?
Don’t think so
while barons
or barawos
dominate,
oppress,
victimize
under-dogged victims
of shaky economies!
Empty-bellied kids
left to scavenge
foodless bins!
Youth going into drugs
after applying for
non-existent jobs!
Seniors living in sorrow,
with pensions not
caring for inflated goods!
We’re unwittingly queueing
for the ultimate Reaper!
We might not have
too long to wait!
We’re already weaponized
through dreaded nukes,
droughts,
desertification,
flooding,
trafficking,
kidnapping,
pedophilia,
trade wars, and
shylocking!
Komu Komu, a butcher
after selling his wares,
patronized bars,
drank himself silly!
Prominent feature of
childhood he was.
Looking at our world,
his drunken stupor
might have been a message
to us that,
Ita gbangba la’wa
Lai wo sokoto
Lai wo kijipa
Ita gbangba la wa!
We are right outdoors
Without pants
With no shred of clothing
We are right outdoors!
@as 05/13/25
