Blog
MY HERO
Arise O’ compatriots
The call from all patriots
Ready to fight for our freedom
Like martyrs of the old kingdom
Peace we know no more
Serenity; a wish nothing more
Yet, our silence they crave
To push all down the demon’s cave
Avalanche from the three invincible
Crippled all like corrupt
constables
constables
Punching through us a forever
insomnia
insomnia
Telling all to be nowhere but near
We bleed through their tyranny
At some point, I trotted like my
granny
granny
Wishes of survival flaunts our
lips
lips
With hopes, we wait as our eyes
drips
drips
Everyday auction-they bid on all
Through any means necessary, they
call
call
With ammunitions they became so
clinical
clinical
Also like Oyenusi-diabolical
Now we are at the mercy of seven
hefty men
hefty men
With intentions to take and split
like herdsmen
like herdsmen
Our males suffered from machetes
to the head
to the head
And our females maligned as they
fled
fled
Yet, our silence they crave
Muted up like the grave
Peaceful was our hearts protest
Not until the men in black arrived
for a contest
for a contest
Gbam! Gbam! Gbam! Gunshots in the
air
air
Standing attention was our body
and hairs
and hairs
One of us has just been hit
All heart sunk deep into a dark
pit
pit
At a crossroad, we all linger
Munching our protest garlic and
ginger
ginger
Sending get well soon messages to
our hero
our hero
His bravery showed us the men in
blacks-zero
blacks-zero
Dedicated to Taiwo Abisoye
Written by Tokede DanielÂ
danatoks@gmail.com
danatoks@gmail.com
Related Posts
A FIGHT FOR TOMORROW
Speak up! They said, voices ringing as we marched forward hand in hand. It was to be a pacific affair, humour and reason king above all...
FAREWELL TO THY MOTHER’S NUNU
Scent in thy youthful galls,Gladdens yours to the crest.Nunu, the menu from your mama,Spoilt this one of no thirst,But urged to hug no ...
GLORY OF THE PAST
Gone like the dead were the days,
I stool and sneeze in and out of abundance.
Like as if possessed by the demon of wealth.
Why am I tod...
NEGRO
Melanin with beards bowing to the white stressed hair,
I wink to their rare glare,
I am a proud soul with a hard role,
Every mission I ...
OUR BROTHERS HAVE BETRAYED US
My two eyes as wide as the sea cannot deny the fact that we crawl on our burnt toes and rank our feet begging for asylum, against those...
MATERNITY CARES
Forsaken for another,
Exchanged for another,
Love hurts the brokenhearted
And soothes it's later.
But later may never come,
Seeming li...
THE WORLD I KNEW
The world I knew
Blind to its own downfall
Fragile and always ready to fall
Nature cries in pain
The world I knew
Futile in awesome wo...
WHY SHOULD I?
I can't marry a poetess,
Lest like hyperbole -our love she'd exaggerate!
Throwing off my guard with a look that impresses,
Yet as the l...
IF THEY KNEW
...At nightfall,
While everyone slept,
I crawl to the corner of my room
And cry sore...
These walls have eyes
That have seen these sca...
SILENT ECHO
It was on a blue bright day, I dreamt of you
Sitting under the big blue moon that day
So filled with thoughts engraving my inner mind...
WHY DO LADIES CRY?
Why do ladies cry?
Making my heart wonder, Why?
As though they've got tons of onions in their eyes;
Never for once do they fail to cry...
A SUNSET AT DAWN
It was maybe six in the morning,
And she wasn't even sixty years old.
This is a story of color bordered by many greys.
My heart broke!
...