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WAZOBIA TOWN


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When reading becomes boring
Delicious meals turn sour
The sun still shines light and bright
But it's as though one was in total darkness
In a rhetoric tone asked what could be the cause?
Your guess is as good as mine
But trust me it's definitely not what you think
I maybe a lover boy, 
This time I'm not down because of love fever

Our town is getting better hope we still!
However nothing look better that we see
Citizens shout we are the saints 
the kings replied we ain't the cause of all
Then we keep on keeping rotating the blame



Wazobia  has always been like this 
Even in the first republic
Staff of authority was broken!

Whose fault? You, I, we or them


We turn our problems to clergy men
Hoping they might be the panacea
to  our maladic conditions
This is nothing but illusion
What the king maker has given us the ability to do
We spent many hours on sacred mountains
Asking Him to come to our aid

Is this not religious syndrome,
Or lack of responsibility part of our illnesses?

Hours spent analysing the tabloid nonsense 
On the pages of dailies
Yet no action was taken that could remedy our malaise
Hours spent debating whose clan will make a better king


'Wa' says they are the choice one
'Bia' says not anymore we must be king or we leave;
We've been marginalised long enough, not anymore.
'Zo' believes they are born to rule

The scepter of power was handed over to us 
By the colonial jargons
We are a better ruler than any other clan!
This we debate year in, year out


Hoping things we change
No spontaneity in change 
Nothing change if we ain't change
This thrown me in the ocean of thought
Then ask when will it be better,
Or can it ever be better?

Head bow in thought, in thought of 'Wazobia town'
Among many arrant nonsense being debated;
The older men are not up to date
Their ideas ain't working again
Let's enthrone the younger ones
Like the Macron of France

But the younger ones are more corrupt
Who then will save us from these epidemics?
Who then have the cure to what ail us
This and many more took my appetite away
This and many more makes light looks like darkness
©OdunayoSam, '19.

Remember, keep being you and keep being good.

HAPPY INDEPEDENCE DAY TO ALL NIGERIANS



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