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Bags of cowries travel abroad
Through the back doors
Inheritances our forefathers left us
Mysteriously disappear
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They open the sacred gate,
Then the storm walks in
And sweeps away the harvest
The flood like ‘Bolt' runs through
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She was completely innocent at first
Deceit crept in and forcefully took away her virginity
Lies threw her on the streets - corrupting her innocence.
With sweet songs, men from yonder and thither came and went;
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A Future Stolen
Bags of cowries travel abroad
Through the back doors
Inheritances our forefathers left us
Mysteriously disappear
To enrich sons of other land
This, the gimmickry of beloved brothers
Thingamajig, thingamabob, thingy…
It drops in our soul.
As the night manoeuvres the day
They, the destiny of the people
Changing the course of things to come
The more we see the less we become.
Now, we are left with nothing
But a future stolen
Generations unborn, like the camel
This burden to bear so cruel
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The poem A Future Stolen by Yomi Oguntoyinbo is a poem written in three stanzas and sixteen lines. In Stanza one 'Bags of cowries travel abroad Through the back doors' The bags of cowries represent two things here, money and resources. This resources and materials which was left behind by our forefathers was being used to enriched sons from another land mysteriously. In stanza two and three The people's destiny changes during the course of things to come, generations unborn left with nothing but a future stolen. The writer uses literary terms in the poem A Future Stolen like simile 'Bags of cowries travel abroad through the back doors' 'As the night manoeuvres the day' Rhyme Thingamajig, Thingamabob and Thingy Symbolism It symbolized Black