Site icon Words Rhymes & Rhythm

AJAYI ADETOLA by Victor Igiri

Read Time:57 Second

Your night came as whirlwind sweeping the tides

to thorns and misery.

For love, you became unioned in a scandal

whose hero jailed truth for white lies.

 

Kirikiri unfleshed your dreams, dreams

fractured by crucified Sikiru, ‘SARS’ bound,

and your days, five years a slave, and two preys

planted your sun in grave darkness of the Nigerian black hole.

 

And though your light shines, now at Dawn,

like your past are zillions of Adetola

who, for the fall of flawed Democracy shall

walk, not only on needles in barren prisons but

shall, with sterile eyes behold aspirations decay

till Silence beckons.

 

Ours is only paradise for those with the black tongue

‘Our Nation of many woes’.


Exit mobile version