Back In The Days! ! ! (Part One) Poem by G. Akanji Olaniyi

Back in the days
Those of yore
Lost and forgotten in man’s memory
Men were dwarfs
Giants in their own rights
Women were midgets
Refusing to measure up to their men
Boys saws dreams in the strength of men
Girls could scarcely copy the wrappings of their mothers
Nudity was commonplace; yet cherished
The males took lessons from the bushes and fields
Labour, strength and manhood had status
The females had classes in the caves and huts
Morality, servitude and reproduction were topics
They were in surplus availability to the men
Knowledge were delivered by nature raw
Wisdom resided in few
Brute carry immeasurable pride
Intelligence was as strange as the heartbeat
Animals shared abodes with men in harmony
Nourishment were never in short supply
Dental sanitation was not on the invention list
Excrement were in dynamic deposits
Man, women, boys and girls were crude
Then came fire and everything changed! ! !

OLANIYI G. AKANJI
© 2015