GENESIS TO REVELATION Heavens Nobody really knows Whether there is happiness tomorrow Today is what we all crave As tomorrow may put us to our grave Fighters should give us today That which makes us gay The situation is just too tough For the politicians were too rough Roads they promised to repair But made their pockets prosper Leaving things to desolation And adding more to our confusion FATHER HEAVEN, MOTHER EARTH Not only heaven is complex to know Mother Earth is now enigmatic Throwing her children in sorrow Making whether we live or die A proposition quite hollow The voyage between here and there so thin That explains why Both could be the same thing Albeit nobody can vouschafe A journey made over there and back Keeping us all guessing, white or black The magic wand that opens the safe December 24, 1983 NEW BORN, NEW BEGINNING, LABOR OF LOVE Here nobody really knows How a child is born to the world Naturally helpless as she grows Although all credits given to Mom As a cock every morning manages to crow She daily pays her rent as she grows The Mom she learns first to know Depending on juicy milk of her breast Like a farmer gets hooked on his plow Riding higher on a crest She stops Is it worth a shout? Whats it all about? The distanced valley, cultured with green crops Slowly she crawls towards it This little stranger to the world Sinless creature of the Lord Unsteadily creeps down the precipice Is she going to make it to the bottom? At a point her feeble feet wobble Scaring her straight A fall may make her less noble Sending her to a ;lifeless strait In obedience to an invisible force called gravity If she knows her path will be difficult She wouldnt have set on this mission But as a novice joins a cult She realizes not the dangers of her mission Besides, she has no choice in this matters Casting a glance heavenwards She grimaces for the journey downward Now her knees are in contact With the hill in accordance with her contract Clutching on to a stone here Holding on to a tree there Slowly she descends down the green valley Slanting her gait to maintain a balance She slouches on, as goes a parlance, Leaping without a look, results in a fall At a little tableland she hears a call ADUKE O! ADUKE O! What is it you are doing here, Or let me say what are you doing there? Aduke spins around and almost loses focus Wondering if the voice was bogus The voice, a very deep one Which to Aduke is second to none Giving lie to her initial wonderment The legitimacy of the Voices government Way below, below the precipice Hey Deep Voice Are you directing your speech To me as if I have a choice? Aduke manages a screech Breathlessly balancing her act Upon the tableland as she signs a pact Aduke o! Aduke o! Deep Voice calls out again Why dont you read the pact Before you endorse Or tell me what you are doing there Before I tell you what to enforce? Look left Can you see those banana trees Each standing between clefts Mathematically arranged in threes Aduke not quite grasping what it means Pans her neck to the left Bringing to focus adjacent triangular beans Their tendrils shooting skyward Converse of where Aduke journeys, downward Yeah, what about banana trees? Have they anything to do with my trip, Down below? You call that a trip? What else do you want to call it? Pit-pat-pit-pat-pit As far as I am concerned Hey, Big Voice, banana trees! Anything to my trip? Down below, they are going to need it So why dont you pat yourself with the grit As you role down the pits A bunch of banana flies across Hangs on Adukes neck like a cross Take it with you, and down below force them to plant But if they have deadly ants? Dont worry about deadly ants Better off With your banana to trade off Are you sure they can plant these bananas? Wont I have to uproot the whole tree Before they can reproduce the whole seeds Big Voice, you are wasting your time Cos for these bananas they may not care a dime Aduke, no time is ever wasted By the time these bananas are completely tasted You would have down below Converted yourself into your own shadow Some of these they will take away from you Some you keep to yourself Others, by your own free will, they will get from you But you said I am to completely taste all Before I bounce myself into a shadow like a ball So what do I have left to give And, or what do they see left to take? I am sure they may try to jive In order to get a piece of the cake But I will make sure I keep what is mine As you should hold to whats thine If I should hold to whats mine I wouldnt have given you pit-pat-pit-pat-pit Ayodele Ayetigbo, Thonade Close, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria December 24, 1983. A week before Mohamad Buhari truncated democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari
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