Yomi Oguntoyinbo Poems

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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