DADDIES AND MUMMIES

Our sugar daddies and mummies
Had advised us not to follow young chicks
What they cannot offer
With no perspiration, we give.
Our body we willingly give
On you we lavish our cash

We never ask you to dissipate
your energy on us with no cost
Whenever you play with us
We pay for it
But the Young ask for pay
Before they play
Why are you wasting your energy for nothing?
A great service you render
And you deserve to be paid
And not to pay

Life is give and take, they said.
Give what you have and get what you want
If you're a lion on the bed
Come display your potential

You're rich if you forget about young chicks
We are living big
We're sweet smelling savor in any club house we tread
But how long will this enjoyment last?
Are we not eating our life time treasure?
In the blinking of an eye

They protested that the young chicks
Lack experience and skills
Where lies your sense of reasoning
Play along with us and be rich
Do we really have future with you sirs/mas?

They're too old to be our parents
Yet, they want us to address them by their nomenclature
After all you are not too small to climb our hills: they remarked
Because of cash the young chicks
Never give us a breathing space
And we dare not embrace them
'Cos our dearest daddies and mummies must not smell them around us

Guys! How long are we going to continue living a parasitic life?
Can't we work with our own hands?
And give God the chance to bless us
Through the right channel
Our work with those men and women
Is not the best for us?
Because once we lose our strength
We'll be replaced like a spare part

Till we meet again, I remain my humble self, AKERELE ODUNAYO SAMUEL
Remeber keep being you and keep being true.

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