Fatoki, Oluwatobi O. Good Poems
- 1. So Be It.
We played, dined and wined together but today you want to bring me down
Forgetting so quick how you comfortably ate from my pepper and salts
With smile and joy, you licked my oily palms but to my messy hands you bring insults
Certainly, in the anger of Oya, Oshun, Olokun and Yemoja you will surely drown.
... - 2. Home
The Yorubas do say; Ile la n ti ko eso rode
You cannot no matter how clever cheat on nature
As what comes from you and I has its roots traced to our nurture
From home do our sojourn start and ends on how good we rebirth ourselves day by day.
... - 3. Life
Life of yesterday we smiled, dined and wined while today we cannot curtail our fight
Was it a thin line that changed the whole scenario?
As the weather changes so does life change in a speed of a flight
Row by row, before living this world, we all are bound to play our role.
... - 4. Irumole And Ebora
Under the revered Iroko tree, no one in those days joke with the food meant for the gods
Irumole and ebora, just like laches and aquisance with fear of the big God no longer kill for their food
Innocent victims now run helter skelter for un-called babalawo’s unimaginable foods against all odds
Doing all sort of things for the fear of irumole and ebora in all manners beclouded to be good.
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