Even when we do not want to play
We get a crashing jerk at their crabby jokes
And with the sheer abandon with mere objects
Get kicked off with their rolling feet
Even when we do not want to smile
We find our lips stretching far beyond their breath;
The effect of a menacing prior threat
And a cruel prodding from behind to do so
Even when we do not want to cry
We feel the tears flowing generously down
As their nails dig deep into our flesh
Searing life-ending pain through us
Even when we do not want to talk
We find the words rolling unrestrictedly out
Like gushes from damaged outlets
To express wearing out griefs
Even when we do not want to die
We find ourselves laden in air traps
Like stacks of test animals
About to be ferried along coast regions
And then when we’re gone
I mean gone never to return again
Like jolting bolts our demise awaken them
To their most ‘honourable’ jobs
Sadly all we get in turn
Is tears shed at our sides
Visits paid at our sites
Libation poured on our graves
Condolences signed on our names
Compensations paid on our lives
Vows made on our spirits
To never make this happen next time
But just like all other facts
Their vain acts are against our will
For there’ll still be a next time
Which like ours will come and go
With more stones laid face down
And more hearts left to bleed
With nothing else left to remember us
Than slowly slipping dates
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Eletrika @babyada
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OMG….. This is touching. True words you spoke @babyada.
Just the way it is. Thanks @lancaster
Cool….not intense enuf for me o. Though the message is crystal clear and in dt is d strength n weapon of ds Piece!
@shaifamily, I just put the words down the manner they occured to me.
Thanks.
Good piece…
Thank you @francis.
@babyada…simple words convey the clearest messages, this did just that!
@dottaraphaels, you’re on point. The severity of the situation got more clearer to me as I wrote this.
Indeed they do….
Respect.
More respect to you @Kaycee.
Thanks.
deep message…
well done!
Thank you @teewah.
True words
True Poetry
Truly written
Truly felt!
Good job @babyada
Indeed @afronuts.
Thank you.
What he said. Just like that. Word for word.
Nice.
Thank you @Seun-Odukoya.
This is very nicely spoken, great words communicating so much. Thank u for this.
I’m humbled by your response.
Thanks.
Gud piece.
Thanks @louis
gbosa! gbosa!! gbosa!!!to the great poet of our time
Amen o @mikeffa. Amen.
Thanks.
Concise… wish there was a better word to summarize all I’ve got to say; conclusively, I like this. We really do a lot under duress. We are just made to “shut up and drive.”
“I mean gone never to [return again]”
I think those words placed together amount to tautology. Except poetic licence permits it, the “again” is better done without.
@babyada, well done.
About the tautology, I’ll check that.
Thanks for pointing that out. Truly, we Nigerians eh…