Tony Ogunlowo Poems

An explosion
a rupture
....oil spills
...

Our Fadda
wey dey up in di sky
for heaven,
as I dey for dis life
...

I was conceived
through the unholy union
of
abused and abuser,
...

The Dictator of old is dead!
Long gone,
long hung, quartered
and drawn.
...

I look up into the night sky
beyond our atmosphere
and
the fringes of our space
...

There is a bounty
So I’m told,
worth more than a
Man’s weight
...

If we had known he was coming
we would have played our drums
till our fingers bled.
Our women
...

I live in a translucent room with no door
It has
floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
Like a two-way mirror
...

And to the place of execution they took him,
a mechanical crane in the clearing stood waiting
a noose on a long rope dangling.
they let him pray one last time
...

It could have been a scene right out of Animal Farm
our wannabe leaders mounted the podium
and their sweet eulogies carried us all away
they were going to correct the wrongs of the past,
...