BAYO SALAWU

Oh life!
I know
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Gone are those days
When the mores and the norms
Of the land have many says
In drumming our cultural tom-toms
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“I have my fishhook ready
The stream and the sea are there
And I’m ready to dive for fish
But I don’t know
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Struggling and hustling for games
Of which every man is a player
On the pitch where all armed to win
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If for the rigours they undergo
From that monthly messy thing
In trying to become complete women
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I am so proud
to have you as my sun
that brightens every obscurity in me
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“Think not
what your nation can do for you
but think
what you can do for your nation”
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It halted; rainfall that once showered
It frowned; the earlier smiling sun
It hid; once displayed crescent moon
Yes! Nature has spoken
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Death, a creature too you are
Threatening other creatures like you
With that your tuberous club
That yields to no pleading of its victim
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A call to their abode
Read out their traits
Pecking the floor with their heels
Scattering all over without fear
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