FOR ME...NO TO MARRIAGE

I won’t embrace marriage

It’s nothing but a cage

I will remain single

No matter how long I mingle

For to remain a Miss

And live in peace

Is better than being a wife

With a battered life

I won’t embrace marriage

Not at any age

I will never marry

On this I will tarry

For it’s better to remain alone

With no broken bone

Than to be a Mrs.

Blending with punches

I won’t embrace marriage

Oh No! My mind I won't change

For I don’t want to end up like Patience

Or Endurance

Two lovely pets

Now accustomed to their husbands' belts

I won't embrace marriage

Until this brutal drainage

Sweeping through marriages in my land

Comes to an end

MERE GONG

His name is Obong
A graduate from the university of Hong-kong
Where he bagged a degree in the x-ray of song
A course he was warned against for long
For his parents want him to belong
To the league of the mighty and the strong
This he can't by being a 'mere gong'

But Obong
Remained resolute and strong
That he might prove his parents wrong
By writing his name among the great throng
Even as a 'mere gong'
In a time not too long

YOUR MAGIC

If your magic can't make you operate a plane
Or make you build a crane

If it can't add any gain
Like the white brain
Who had decanted the strain
In his people's membrane
Or can't make you attain
Beyond that in reign

If your magic can't drain
The insanity on every lane

Then it mustn't cause more pain
To the decaying vein
More rain
And wash away the nutrient on the plain
More stain
To drive us beyond sane

Rather let it maintain
Sustain
And retain the lane
Since it can't add any gain

THE POET CRY

I stole their time with my words
Hoping that they'll change our worlds
I engaged them with my piece
Thinking they'll give us true justice
I coaxed their hearts on my paper
That they might hear and answer our prayer
I pierced their soul with my pen
Now it's bled lives beneath their den

May the lord of verses
Chastise their bruises
May the father of inspiration
Repay their exploration
And may the God of poetry
Reward their inventory

NEW CURRENCY

Beautiful
Wonderful
With a fragrance so alluring
Super inviting compared to any existing
A structure so flexible
And touch unimaginably incredible

Little wonder there is so much corruption
Tearing down the walls of my nation
So much evil
Bedevilling my people
So much decadence
Swimming in our existence

Still we can't stop to desire
Less nothing shall we acquire
We can't stop to long after her
Less we won't get better

O God of normalcy
Deliver my people from the craze for currency

MY STAY IN NIGERIA

Never being this decorated
Never being this re-visited
Till I came to Nigeria
The giant of Africa

Never being this widely x-rayed
Never being this beautifully accompanied
Till I came to Nigeria
The giant of Africa

Always in cage
Among words' luggage
Till I came to Nigeria
The giant of Africa

What a wonderful place
To reveal my masked face

But my pain
What is the gain
Of making me an offer
To the unrepentant sinner
Of my being granted
To the impenitent wanted
Of giving me out
To men who aren't tired of the bout

ROME ON EVERY ROAD

On my street

Churches are like fleet

Same on church road

They are at every node

A dive

Into mission drive

Was like yell

In hell

'Praise the lord' from the east

'Alleluia' from the west

'The lord is good' from the north

'All the time' from the south

All at the same time

Tearing down my eardrums like I had committed a crime

Getting to my friend's lane

The story was like the previous plain

The first house was a church

The last, a worshiping perch

And as if that was not all

Our usual viewing hall

At the centre of the close

Behind my friend's enclose

Now bears a new name

Spreading Heaven's Aim and Mission on Earth (SHAME)

But with all this

Many lacks internal peace

Evil still reign supreme

Along the stream

A contradiction

Of an ideal situation

Still the house beside my home

Is about becoming another Rome

MY ABILITY IN MY DISABILITY

I hoped while others were walking
I flew while they were running
Still I couldn't meet up with their pace
I couldn't beat them in the race

Two limbs we all possess
Pinnacle we pray to access
But when it comes to height beyond the ground
Which is of frequent sight on this land
Sorrow finds in me a territory
Impossibility takes over my story

But I won't remain impounded
And allow my story become confounded
I won't watch it watered
Neither will I allow it slaughtered

I might be challenged physically
But mentally
I'll fight my neglect
I'll overcome my defect

GOD SAVE OUR NATION

God save my nation

From its' leader's transformation

For he gradually make destruction

The best profession

Having caused so much commotion

With their unholy presentation

And offering gory transportation

For unsuspecting souls too many to mention

Who had no intention

To journey yet to their heavenly mansion

Our Government favours the adoption

And granting the perpetrators of this bastardization

Who had refuse to embrace round-table discussion

Amnesty with mouth-watery  compensation

Their intention

They will stop this aberration

But they see not that their action

Will only give birth to further sects creation

With destruction

As the sole aim of their formation

Since there is no condemnation

But commendation

And compensation

For havoc creation

So I beckon on our 'oga at the top' in Aso mansion

To consider the opposite reaction

Of his reversible decision

Before it gives birth to an uncontrollable situation

And spells greater doom on our nation

THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

Oh I often sit and ponder

What a world I wonder

Where a father

Defiles his daughter

A son erases his father

Because of his lover

Where a dad

Penetrates the lass of his lad

And will boldly address the same son

'There is noting new under the sun'

Oh I often sit and ponder

What a world I wonder

Where sisters 

Share lovers

Where mothers

Warm the bed of their daughters' lovers

And when they are done

They claim 'There is nothing new under the sun'

Oh I often sit and ponder

What a world I wonder

Where lesbianism is the game

And being a gay is never a shame

All in the name of fun

'There is nothing new under the sun'

Oh I often sit and ponder

What a world I continue to wonder

When shall we be done

With 'There is nothing new under the sun'

THE VEIL

The veil is a tiny fitting

Like the inn's covering

Which opens when anything 

Touches it at no particular timing

But unlike the inn's covering

Nothing can open this veil thing

Les it's its' time of opening

For the man that is passing

From this lowering

To the place of resting

Where the angels are praising

And the saints are adoring

Every moment without ending

Endlessly without tiring

And forever without failing

Adieu beloved now forever missing

Till we meet again where there is no more crying

That peaceful end where there is no more wailing

Sleep on Margret

Sleep on and take your rest

GOODBYE BELOVED

We were together yesterday

Making plans for today

Plans on how to better the lives of many

'Torí àjọjẹ ò dùn, bẹ́nì kan òní'

But now she lives no more

To liberate the poor

No more

To lift them off the floor

Of abject poverty

Before it becomes a heredity

No more

To fulfill her core

And utmost obligation

To her people and her nation

Our beloved is no more

Adieu Mrs. Ọláyinká Fúnmiláyọ̀

Till we meet at that place

Where it is peace at every phase

BEFORE HER

Before her I melted like wax

My voice became hard to fix

The unknown me wore the garment of revelation

A situation beyond my redemption

So out of fear

I became a liar

For I never wanted to lose her friendship

Even though what I wanted was a relationship

A disagreement

With our arrangement 

At start

To pan away from things of the heart

Maybe someday I'll find my feet

And the nail's head I'll hit

Maybe someday I'll get hold of my courage

And reveal to her my package

But till that day

She will I cherish in my inmost bay

As the one I choose to be with

Every breath

I make on earth

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Choose an option 

That is your best description of the action

Of most of our leaders

And elected officers

Option A is Corruption

Next is Misappropiation

Then Bribery

Or Money laundry

But if none is suitable for you

This last will surely do

ALL OF THE ABOVE is the option

The one I highly favour as the solution

ONE SIDED WISDOM

They proposed death by hanging

As consequence for human kidnapping

A measure to reduce its’ high rate

And make men live in a peaceful state

O What wisdom

From the lawmakers kingdom

But what of public fund misappropriation

And corruption?

An equivalent of fund kidnapping

And trafficking

Aren't they producing the same fruit?

Or is there something that makes one's product sweet?

Kidnapping is kidnapping

Whether of the living or of the non living

I LOVE YOU

I love you not because of what you have
But because of who I have
Beauty vanishes
Money finishes
But the who you are
Remains forever
It can only get better
As the future unfolds brighter

I love you not because of what you possess
But because of who I possess
Acquired may fly away
Achievement might refuse to stay
But the person behind the face
Remain through every phase
It can only become better
As the journey becomes deeper

I love you because you are YOU
Truly for this I do

RAPE

Raped
And abused
Now she is miserable
And highly unstable
With low self esteem
Driving her to the extreme

‘It’s your fault’ was the response
‘Why do you dress like that’ they said in their defence
But is there any justification
For this bastardization?
Any basement
For this debasement?

No wonder the victim
Continues to swim
In silence
For her story makes no sense
Like that of her mate
Who had suffered the same fate

No wonder she continues to live with the guilt
Of what was never her fault

Let’s continue the fight against rape
By spreading and replaying the message like the tape
And by being a listening society
Where victims can confidently recount their adversity

WAR ZONE

Sola was disowned by her parent
Because she is pregnant
How she came about it
Concerns them not

She had brought them shame
She had destroyed their name
The only daughter of Otunba and Iya Aafin Folorunsho
The custodians of our culture
Is about becoming a mother
Of a child with an unknown father

But how soon they forget
That traveling is their pet
And she is always at the mercy of Uncle Abass
A professor of abuse

And whenever they return
To find her on
They shower praises on her uncle
Who had shown that he was capable
Without asking
How she was faring

Now she is pregnant
Their failure to keep their covenant
Still she is to bear the brunt alone
Oh! what a war zone
Where you face the music of your mistake
And in others punishment you'll still partake

I AM BACK AGAIN

I am back again
This time on a higher plain
Bigger
And brighter
A fulfillment of a promise made
A confirmation of a debt paid

Thanks be to God for helping you to on
Till my return
Thanks be to him that I met you well
Even though situations around mirror hell
To him be the glory for the opportunity
To journey
Once again together
That we might make the future better

In this new tenure
May you achieve success beyond measure
Breakthrough beyond thought
Greatness beyond sight
And joy beyond say
That will propel you into the month of May