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Thursday 28 November 2013

Ade's Chronicle 19.

Ade’s Chronicle 19

I was perplexed. I was more than surprised. Why would Shola initiate these innocent young girls into such an evil act? Where did Shola herself get into the act? Why is she doing it? It would be utter foolishness to ask if she still does it. Then, how many more girls is she putting into this act?

I was totally astounded. Shola had always been finding ways to get close to me. I had limited our interaction to only greeting. Good morning, goodbye was our relationship. But she had tried to take it further than that. She behaved as if she had known me previously which I didn’t think was possible. “I can never know someone as bad as her,” I had once thought.

Rotimi never had any problem with her. They had gone along well. He had even told me once that her face looked familiar but I had denied and refuted his claims saying that he could have come across her in his dreams.

Our paths crossed well enough everyday in the junior school. Don’t forget that I take both Economics and Business Studies while my friend takes Financial Accounting and Short hand. Shola is no stranger to me in the school at all. I just had a personal dislike for her way of life. She was too wayward for my liking. I believed she should have limited it to the adults and not take it to the male students and even to the point of initiating Ronke and Folake into the act, though I think they had theirs up their sleeves before she added hers to theirs. This one of teaching these girls the act of bisexualism is the pinnacle of my dislike for her. I needed to do something.

I looked at the girls who were also looking at me and Rotimi whose mouth was still opened. We were awestruck. They confirmed their claims a second time after I had asked if they were sure.

“Sir, we are sure. We can’t lie to you sir. She taught us the act before you came to our school last term.” Bola reiterated.
“We don’t disbelieve you. But how did it happen?”  Rotimi recovered his tongue.

The three girls looked at us. Their face blank and expressionless but I could decipher a glint of sadness in it. It showed that it was not something they were proud of. To me, it was as if they were forced into it but I was still had to wait for them to tell the story.

“It all started when we were in S.S.S two, I and Bunmi, that was two years ago. Miss Shola had just come to our school then and was teaching the junior school Mathematics.” Bola started the story.
“Bimbo then was in S. S. S one but we had been friends from home because once lived close to each other. It was when I moved to Mushin that I became friends with Bunmi.” She continued.
“One day after our Biology teacher had just left our class; Miss Shola came in from nowhere and called me out of the class. She asked me to see her in the staff room later that day. At break time, I went to see her in the staff room as he requested.” She paused and looked into the face of her friends for effect. They signalled to her to continue. They had no dispute with what she was saying.
“When I got to the staffroom, I met my friends Bunmi and Bimbo and two other S. S. S three girls there. The girls were all seated around her table and it seemed they were waiting for me to come. When I got there, we moved to the mat which was in that place where the bed is. We were all five and she sat in the middle of us. She had it all planned. Bunmi, tell him the rest please.” She ended her part of the story.

Bunmi took over, “Miss Shola sat in the middle as Bola said and she began the story of how she had been watching the five of us. That Bola, Bimbo and I were always together and the two other seniors were also always seen together. She said that it was a good thing and that she would like to make our bond stronger. At that stage, we were confused. I didn’t know that Bola and Bimbo were there just as they didn’t know of my presence there. She had invited us individually and wooed us together.”

I looked at the three girls and shook my head. I was forced to feel pity for them. They had been three innocent girls and one person had changed their life in just less than a day.

I looked around the staffroom, all was still quiet, an indication that the break was still on and we had not spent much time. Our colleagues were still enjoying their breaks while we were sweating it out with three girls seeking to know a painful part of their lives. Rotimi looked at me, his face showed he was eager to get along with the story as I was too.

“She asked what we had learnt about sex. We all replied that we had done it once or twice with our boyfriends. She clapped for us. She asked us individually and I told her then that I had done it twice with my then boyfriend. Bimbo said that she had done twice with her former boyfriend and Bola, then, had done it twice with Tunji, a senior student in the then S. S. S three. The two seniors had done it a lot more than we had done. I think one said she had done it ten times with more than three boys while the other said she had done it more than twenty times with close to six boys. She told us about her own escapades too. She said she had had eighteen boyfriends together. They had all slept with her more than five times each since she was in secondary school. We had all marvelled at her sexual prowess. She had also told us that it was good to have sex as it mad one feel lighter and younger. She then asked if we had slept with our fellow girls previously.” She stopped and looked at her friends. I knew she would not continue. She wanted the third person to complete the last part.

Bimbo knew it was her turn. Her chest was heaving seriously and she was teary eyed just as were the other two. The reason for their tears, I know not till date. Without prompting, she took the stage.

“She asked if we had slept with girls before. When she asked us, we all looked at ourselves and then replied in the negative because we had not heard about that kind of thing before. We had only heard of it in the movies. She laughed and said she thought we would have been doing it because we moved together as she had said before. She also said that was why she came for us. We were still baffled because she had not told us the thing she wanted us to do. Then she finally said that she would teach us how to do it. We were surprised because we had thought we didn’t hear her well. But she went ahead and promised that she would start with us one after the other and that we would enjoy it. She said it is a good thing that we can do when our boyfriends cannot satisfy us, we could satisfy ourselves with our friends and even do threesomes or foursomes. We asked her what it was and she explained it all to us. She said she had done it with two of her friends and her boyfriend once. She never told us the name then. But we later thought that we were lesbians till you enlightened us today.” Bola paused.

Then she continued, “The following day, at break time, she called us all together again and took us to the toilet area. She then went in with us one after the other to have fun with us. She spent like ten minutes with each one of us and we were all waiting to have our turn because we were anxious to know how it felt like. We spent more than the break time but at last we were all initiated in the act of bisexualism. From then, she takes us as she like and did same with us anytime she wants. Then we too started experimenting with ourselves in and outside the school. We even had with the two seniors like three or four times. We also did a five some where we all were in the toilet doing the thing. She still did it with me last week when her school toy boy was not in school. When we leave school, she will still continue with other girls.” She ended the painful story of their journey to bisexualism.

I heaved a huge sigh as she ended the story as Rotimi stood up pacing the room uneasily. He was tensed. He looked at the girls and said, “Have you taught other girls in your area?”

They all said yes. But they also agreed that the girls outside too all knew about it before they met them.

I then knew that the evil was spreading faster that we had thought. Who even knows if our girlfriends were not bisexuals. I also decided then that eight out of ten ladies out there are bisexuals. Beautiful faces, big fronts and large backsides, all that makes our head turn are even the things that they expose and explore with their fellow women. Things that are meant for only exploration of men! The end is nearest!

The girls were now back to their normal selves. They looked exuberant and were ready to go. They asked for their reply.

“Your reply is positive. But there will be conditions as you know.” I told them still thinking of how to confront Shola with the facts. I had decided to let her know that we knew her secrets.
“We know that there would be conditions. We would go along with you sir. We are also very glad that you accepted our proposals. We would come to your place tomorrow evening after school for our first meeting.” Bimbo said with an air of finality.

With that, they picked themselves off the seats and went out of the staffroom...



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Thursday 21 November 2013

Ade's Chronicle 18

Ade’s Chronicle 18

The look on their faces changed from the initial expectant look to that of horror as the reality of the question hit them. They looked from Rotimi to me and then to one another. They were debating inwardly whether to answer my question or not to.

“A lie will not help your case. Just say it as it is and we shall move from there. You should know that I am very good in detecting lies. So don’t even think of lying to me.” I intoned.

That statement added to their mystery. Their faces became white and their eyes became red. What they had earlier relished and spoken with pride had become a source of immediate sorrow to them.

Rotimi looked at me and smiled. He knew that I had woven them into a tight corner and only the truth could set them free. Both of us had the gift of lie detection but mine was sharper than his. He would detect a loophole in a lie after giving it a second thought, mine was instantaneous. I do not know how I came about it, till now. Something just rings in my mind and tells me that what you have just said is a lie and I would put it to you straight as it is. Then it’s either you deny it or call me a wizard.

The three girls thought for some time and put their heads together for some minutes. I pretended as if I did not see them and I could hear them whispering to themselves. Then they breathed deeply which I took as a sign of telling me that they were ready.

“So are you ready to tell me?” I asked.
“Yes sir.” They chorused.
“I am all ears.”

I listened with rapt attention as the silence in the room became deafening. Bola spoke.

“Sir, we were taught by Miss Shola.”

I laughed loudly and I knew that the girls would have thought that I was sick. The laughter was so loud that it reverberated through the room and anybody passing outside would not have a difficulty in hearing it. What she said was not enough to elicit such laughter but I had learnt in life that shock has a way of making you do things that you won’t do naturally. I was shocked by their revelation. I had expected that it would be someone who I did not know. Somebody they had met outside the school. Shola never crossed my mind in the least of minutes. I was caught offside.

I looked at Rotimi. He was also caught badly by it. He just opened his eyes and mouth wide open dripping saliva. He was shell shocked. He was the closest to Shola of the two of us. I naturally had a dislike for the lady but Rotimi was unusually warm towards her and she searched and looked for all avenues to get close to me.

Thursday, 21 November 2013
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Tuesday 19 November 2013

Ade's Chronicle 17

Ade’s Chronicle 17

Rotimi being surprised is not a new thing. When he is surprised, he could be tensed but in this situation, he was not. He has a penchant for talking about you as if you are not there.  As he was talking, the girls who were also familiar with the Pidgin English knew he was talking about them and as such they looked askance. They did not know what his reaction would be. But I already knew it. He was happy that we would rock things together with the girls.

I looked at the girls and began my lecture

“Bunmi told me that you girls are lesbians. Is it true?” I asked another JAMB question.

The two other girls nodded in the affirmative. Then I knew that they were all in the act and that they were not in the true know of what they actually were. The look on their face even showed that they were proud of what they think they were.

“The three of you are not lesbians.” I said and watched the reactions on their faces. I got what I expected. They all looked up and into my eyes with utter disbelief.

I continued, “Yes, you are not lesbians. I will tell you why you are not lesbians. Lesbians only sleep with their fellow women. They hate the male gender and want nothing to do with them. They get married to their fellow females. They naturally are seen together and do not depend on the male for anything. They believe that only a woman can satisfy a woman sexually. They believe the male are oppressors and even oppress women when it comes to sex, so they hate to sleep with men.”

I paused to look at the effect of my word and saw that I had caused a storm in their brains. They knew that they had none of the features I described above. They all depended on the male folks for one thing or the other.

“Or is there any of you here that hates a man and will not like to have anything to do with a man?” I asked them. They still looked astonished with what they had just heard.

Rotimi was wishing to hear the affirmative. I could guess that from the way he anxiously looked from one girl to the other two and then finally fixing his gaze on his object of interest—Bunmi.

“No sir, we all love men and can never hate them. We would love to get married one day but not to our fellow women.” Bimbo said after looking into the eyes of the other two and they had given her the go ahead to speak.

“That means that you girls accept that you are not lesbians.” I remarked and they nodded.

Then Bola said, “Sir if we are not lesbians, then what are we? We sleep with one another almost on a daily basis. We do threesomes most of the time. We thought a girl sleeping with girls is called lesbianism, but you said we are wrong. Sir, what are we?”

I smiled. She had confirmed a part of what I wanted to know—that the three of them sleep together and they do it almost daily.

“What you are and do is called bisexualism. It is when a boy or girl sleeps with his or her fellow boy or girl and still sleeps with members of the opposite sex. In your case, you have sex with one another and you still have boyfriends who do you well and satisfy you. So, you are not lesbians, you are just bisexuals.” I enlightened them.

A look of relief was awash on their faces as I ended the statement and they heaved a sigh of relief.

By then, the staffroom was as silent as a graveyard because the other teachers had left the room and we were the only parties left to our business.

Rotimi looked at me and smiled. I knew he was wondering how I got to know so much about the issue at hand. I had never let him into my store of knowledge about sex and sexuality.

The girls were pleased with what they had heard and wanted their reply so that they can go for their break and as well plan on how my rendezvous with Bimbo and Bola would start in earnest. But I was far from being through with them.

I had been able to change their mentality from thinking of themselves as lesbians and making them know what they were. I still needed to know how and who taught them the act of bisexuality.

These girls, from my observation did not stumble upon the act. Someone had taught them. I needed to know. My decision had been that I would ask them and if they refused, I would tell them to go and that I would have nothing to do with them. They can go ahead and carry out their threats.

Something had told me that with the kind of influence I wield over those girls, they would tell me. They wanted to satisfy their curiosity of sleeping with the only remaining teacher in the school. I was a hot cake.

“Sir, thank you for the explanation you gave us. We are very grateful. Sir, can we have the reply now so that we can go for our break?” Bola spoke.

She had spoken sparingly since they came into the room. I looked at them and smiled.

“You can’t get your reply now. There is one question you need to answer. If not;, your answer will be no and then I would have nothing to do with you. Then you can always carry out your threat and I will be waiting for you outside there. Just answer and let’s all enjoy it for as long as we can.” I replied throwing them into another session of thoughtfulness.

“Sir, what is the question? We promise to answer it truthfully.” Bunmi, they ever vocal of the three, offered.

“My question is simple. Who taught you the act of sleeping with one another?” I dropped the bombshell.

The three of them looked shocked. They looked from one to the other then to Rotimi and to me. They had not expected my question. I had caught them off guard...


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Monday 18 November 2013

With Me...

With Me....

Tears in my eyes...
Sniffs I do.
Onions I cut not
Nor was I flogged...
Yet ceaselessly they flowed...

At my life I looked
All around me I see...
Things...

Unspeakable
Confusable
Unthinkable
Unfathomable
Eye catching
Heart breaking
Head banging
Life claiming
Morale crushing...

Nothing so positive
More negative...
Here we did ourselves...

We wound ourselves
In this tight angle
Like a silk worm
In its cocoon...
Like a spider with its webs...

Now we have ourselves
To blame...

Ourselves to relief
Of the burden
We placed on heads...

Ourselves to loosen
The webs we wove...

How do we do it?
I know not...

All I know is
It begins with me....

Come Along

Come Along!

Just come along
With me on this road not so long
A road that is very short
To learn a little about my world of all sort!

Come along and read
The things that are here for us to lead
Ourselves and others to the promised land
Which makes us look like magicians with the best wand!

Come along and correct me
Where you notice flaws that be
Then do not fail to commend
The ones that are straight and not bend!

OH God my Creator
The Lord of the world and Saviour
Make these lines beneficial
And not make me a lamb sacrificial!

My work, my life

See our school o. Naija we hail thee...

Put the Blames on Me

Put the Blame on Me

                                                I
I have failed to scale
The hurdles placed before me
Rather all of them I fell.
Please put the blames on me!
                                II
I was made a leader
By the people who conscientiously followed me
To the best of ability and capability
But I failed woefully, them
And their faith highly placed in me I dashed.
So I have to say that you should
Please, put the blame on me!

                                III
Their trusts I betrayed
Their money I gulped
I used for my personal desires.
Their resources I squandered
To build empires for myself.
Indeed, I have failed them, therefore
Please put the blames on me!

                                IV
Their sufferings I increased
Their pleas I turned deaf ears to
Their cries of pain I neglected.
The devil in me keep crying
For the ill wealth I am gathering.
So for all these, people,
Please put the blames on me!

                                V
Insatiable is my lust for wealth
China, Russia, England, America,
India, Germany, are among the
Countries where the tax payer’s money
I looted from my people’s treasury are kept by me
For my personal and family use
Thinking it is wealth that is the
Lasting legacy to leave for children. But
Please put the blames on me!

                                VI
Their roads are in a very
Sad and highly deplorable state.
They are subjected to accidents
On a daily basis because
Of my appointments. Therefore
Put the blames on me!

                                VII
I appointed people who are my cohorts, since
They want to achieve their personal aims
They never question my decisions
Contracts I to them give
Whether execution takes place or not
I care less. In as much as I
Can get the ones to fill my accounts foreign.
As a result, they continue to
Suffer the masses whose money
It is we continue to eat.
Please put the blames on me!

                                VIII
The lawmakers by them elected
Are but crooks as we in the executive
They bring laws that will implicate the masses
And put so much coin in their pockets.
They to the banks daily smile
While the masses hardly a bank account have.
When I even try to execute little
People-friendly projects, they request
For ridiculously high amounts of money
Before the bill is passed, hence, because of
My own personal benefit and since the money
Isn’t mine, I give to them.
The project bill passed,
I take my share of the total
Assigned expenditure for the project
And to the minister in charge the rest I pass
Who his share also takes and the rest he sends
To pay the quack contractors who
In turn execute the contract
In a haphazard manner.
The brunt is borne by who?
The tax-paying masses!!!
Again for all these, I say
Please, put the blames on me!

                                                IX. The Closure... A Sonnet

Oh Lord, God of Creation,
From You I seek lots of serious forgiveness
For the atrocities I committed in my nation
For I have but ruled them with passiveness.
Though my inequities be as high as the mountain
Lord, I pray you help reduce them to rubbles.
Let me be as fresh as water from the fountain
And make the goods I do, come up in their doubles.
The people I erred against, I
Have apologised and begged to forgive
Me, and forgive have they with tears in my eye
To them, all rights due, I have to give.

Though my crimes be as much as the sea,
They should please put the blames on me!!!


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The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

Many a crime have I committed
Many a people have I offended
Many a soul have I hurt.
But here I am to surrender.

I go from person to person
From soul to soul
From house to house
And from place to place
Confessing my crimes
From the littlest
To the heaviest of them.
But no soul is ready to accept me
“We have forgiven you
At the same time
We have learnt to forget you.” Said they.

Now here I am, a loner
So lonely am I that
Incomparable is the lonely well in a desert,
Giving water to a passerby once in a year.

Though my sins might seem unforgivable,
I am truly and fully repentant
But were it you,
Will you forgive a cruel soul
That came to claim your heartful love
His sweetened tongue chanting and singing love tunes
In your love-famished ears.
Only for him to shatter your fragile heart
As a Chinaware dropped from a high mountain.
I ask once more
Will you forgive him?
If you do won’t you forget him?

But again if he comes
Running along, repentance written
In bold letters on his face and
Sorry, smelling all over him as a perfume,
Begging to be taken back into your life.
Will you take and accept him back?
Your answer is what I got?

Though some others in my shoes might be lucky
But unlucky was I
Cos none was ready to take me back.
And truly sorry was I.

As I was planning on how to end it all
Something told me
To make one last attemptful effort
In my quest to find love and peace again...

Thus I did,
And lo and behold, I found her!

She was the last person I ever thought of
My escapades though she had heard of
Warnings she had received from those I had hurt
To avoid the vicinities of this beast so heartless.
But here is she with me
Nurturing my wound but repentant heart.

I am determined and resolute
To keep her to myself and myself alone
Not to let her out of my sight
Nor out of my softly firm grip
Lest I might go, back to square one
And cursed be I
If I let that happen again.
Rejoice with me for my heartthrob have I found!

She had also been treated
Though by other men like my former self.
She had been so bruised and battered
By men of evil intent and incarnation
That she had resorted and resigned
To an untimely fate of being unlucky in love.
So cruel were they
That each time one came along
Her body is but the ultimate price
After which he immediately packs up
And go the way of his equally cruel predecessors.
When by her I was told these
I knew nemesis had caught up with me
I was being paid back in my own coin!

But despite these,
I will forever and ever love and cherish her
For when I was cast out and rejected
She cast me in and provided me with warmth.
Ours is but a perfect match!

So dear beloved angel,
Saviour and acceptor of my renewed heart
The one on whose shoulder I cry
Come along and be my wife
My pillar, my support, my everything.
Because you love me honey,
I am ready to be your scapegoat.
The one to bear all the anger
The blames, the punishments, the hurts
The brunt of the pains caused you
By the men of the bad intentions gone by.
Who had caused your large heart to bleed.
Take my hand, my love
Stay with me and
 If you need anyone to blame for
Those things that had happened to you
Love, heap the blames on me!

Just leave me not,
Hurt me not, despise me not,
You alone are the love of my life
My angel, guard, light and destiny.

But remember, I will forever be...
Your Scapegoat!!!


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Time to Reflect

Time to Reflect

The day comes and it goes
As rapidly as it had come in at last
Yet man does not reflect on its significance...

Was this how it used to be?
O look around me at all that there is
Then I knew that
It is time to reflect...

Reflect?
Who should reflect?
That I leave for you to decipher.
The time was gone when things were straight
When life was rosy and easy
Then things were almost taken for free
Both in here and out there, the world over.
Today, it isn’t so,
Then, isn’t it time to reflect?

Back in the days,
Ladies, girls, women, all females,
Have a sense of shame
I mean, they were not so much educated
But they dressed educatedly.
Today, they are extremely educated
But in exchange for that, they traded their shame.
They traded their dress sense.
Want to fault this claim?
Take a look out at your street
And tell me what the females are now wearing.
Then I ask again,
Isn’t it time to reflect?

Back then, I mean in the days
When men were boys
You see the males very respectable in appearance
The more educated, the more nicely appeared you are.
But these days,
Boys have become men,
Males have become more and more irresponsible
In dressing, action and all
Different senseless styles of hair cuts
You see on the head of a sagging bastard!!!
Earrings for them is the order of the day
Tattoo all over like the animalised slaves of old.
Then I say, it is time to reflect...

Then, we pray to HIM
And before we’re through, we see response
Now, we pray, praise, chant, chorus our requests
But, it takes ages before responses are gotten.
What is the cause?
Who has changed? Man? God?
Man has neglected his Lord
The little that are conscious of Him still,
Are inconsistent in worshiping him
When they do, they constantly trail off
In their busily doubting minds.
Man disobeys Him and follows his instincts

Which is leading us to nowhere
Except to perpetual perdition
And everlasting condemnation both here
And in the hereafter immediately after death.
So I say, it is time to reflect...


Why won’t we reflect?
The so-called best of mankind
Created by my Lord is seriously at sleep
Sleeping and snoring away at the bottom of life’s sea
His enemies have bombarded the world
Before his very eyes with all sorts of weapons
Liberalism, intellectualism, feminism, atheism, among other ‘sms’
But he is only protecting himself and his family.
Lo and behold! It is coming to you!
Better wake up from your slumber
And fly the flag of the only true religion
And salvage mankind from this depth of perdition.
It is your divine responsibility
So, you can’t run from it.
Pick up your acts, oh frontier!
And reflect upon your past and look at your present
So that the future of the world does not implode.
So you know now
That it is time to reflect...

Let’s reflect on our past
How the caliphacy was lost
How the enemies are stripping the world of its garment.
Let’s stop them before it gets too late.
Let’s bring it back,
Let it rule again
That the world might know peace once more.
Let the world know that
Human reasoning will take us nowhere
It will only land us in troubles
In all spheres of our lives.
Let’s come back to the rules of our Lord
Which are straight and clear
That the world might not become history
Become history in its prime.
So,
The one true vicegerent
Of the one true God
 That owns the one true way to the
Here and hereafter,
Reflect alone, reason together
And bring back the brotherhood that was lost
That the caliphacy might return
And that the world might get an everlasting peace
In the service of the one true God.
So I say,
IT IS TIME TO REFLECT!!!


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A Tale of Four Sisters

A tale of four Sisters
They were two
Who met in concord to be bonded
Bonded together not to be unfused by anything.
Together they weathered the storms
Together they fought and won
Together secrets they shared
Secrets which unknown to any other was.
Secrets which made the bond stronger.
Nothing happened to one that the other is
Caught unawares. And that the other
Will say. “I know not.”
Such was the tale of the two
The two bonded and lovely friends.

Day after day
Rolling into weeks after week
Becoming months into months
Graduating into years upon years,
There came an additional two to these
Two bonded fellows who were but younger
Than they were. Thus there began a tale
Of four jolly bonded sisters. The two added
Sisters blended perfectly and well with the previous two
And they become the cynosure of all eyes
Eyes that surround them
Eyes that are friends
Eyes that are neighbours.
All bore witness to the jellying of the four
To become four inseparable sisters.
Friends came into them, friends added to them
They threatened their existence not until
One force came trying, struggling intermittently
To put them asunder. The force, a respectable
One. The one which is obvious of their
Jellying together for a reason best known to it,
Is fastly pulling them apart!!!

Such is life...
Who is to there to trust?
Who is there to confide in?
I know not. Do you?
The force is one that should have been a source
A source of fostering of unity among them.
But it is proving otherwise.


It all began when one of the sisters
Became extra tied to her mother’s apron strings
When her home going became incessant
When she became ill advised by the force
The force so insensitive
The force being jealous of another
The force being so naive that one
Doesn’t destroy, that one should
Rather build and employ. The ill advised sister
Came back to the others
Came back a changed sister.
Then, she began calling for separation
We should go in twos, said she
One older and one younger, continued she.
I with you, she with her, ended she.
That was it. The others tried to make her
Make her see reason that it is uncalled for
Let’s get a bigger house, they said.
But lo and behold! This sister
Was so poisoned that she stood aloof
From the rest forgetting that a house divided
Divided against itself is bound to fall.
The once united and indivisible sisters
Now became divided. They became three to one.
The neighbours can’t interfere.
Outsiders are cautious to approach.
So, I ask myself again and again
For the first and umpteenth time. Why can’t
That foolish force repair rather than rend
Asunder the very fabric of the sisters’ existence?

What will be the fate of the four sisters
That were once inseparable?
Will they separate? How will they separate?
All these I know not answers to.
Can you help me with them?

© Yettocome™ 2010

Are We Developing?

ARE WE DEVELOPING?

Nigeria is developing
So we hear everyday
In the 9 O’ clock news on our blurred T. V
Yet thousands of citizens
Are in the streets dying of hunger.
Numerous children are picking food
From the refuse dumps just to survive.
Are we developing?

We hear with our ears that
Billions and trillions of naira and dollars
Are devoted and spent
On white elephant projects
Whose effects none have seen
Or whose impact none has felt.
So I dare to ask
Are we developing?

Our roads are sure death sources
Killing us in our hundreds and tens
If not daily, it is weekly even monthly.
But I know unfailing every year
Are casualties on our major
And innumerable minor roads.
Yet in the daily news
We hear of non fulfilled promises
Of repairs and construction of roads.
Where are they? Have you seen any? I ask.
Yet, Are we developing?

NEPA, takes power at will
Many industries have died as a result of this.
Three years in my area have we
Been in NEPA inflicted darkness.
Everyday, we continue to hope and pray
That it will be returned to us,
Our transformer that was taken away
Away by the almighty NEPA to be repaired
But “Long shall your wait be,” saith NEPA.
Outrageous are the bills they bring,
And people are being electrocuted
On a daily basis, why?
Because live NEPA wires are
Either dropping at an arm’s length
Waiting to be touched by anybody
Vehicle or even a toddling child.
Or have already descended on houses’ rooftops
Causing hot untimely death
For the occupants of the ill fated houses.
You call NEPA, they answer not!
Are we developing?

Lecturers go on strike at anytime,
Students study under duress and stress
Teachers are unpaid,
Civil servants work for free
Retirees’ pensions are lost.
Where they are paid,
It is untimely and commensurate
Not with their efforts.
Their children are sent home
From their schools.
Their clothes are threadbare
Some are even ragged.
They collapse, or even die on queues
Cos they want to collect their entitlements.
In fact the whole educational sector
And civil service is in utmost shamble.
Where are the allocations and pensions?
Where are the Petroleum Interventions?
I am tempted to ask.
So, Are we developing?

Inflation rate is on the high side,
Goods and foodstuffs are increasing in price,
The common man suffers for it
He pays the tax he knows nothing about,
After paying that which is due
To the unyielding government from his income.
Are we developing?

Banks declare huge profits
Year after year
And they translate to nothing
On the nation’s economy but
Add to our suffering tales.
Are we developing?

Robbers are having a field day
Policemen and women are on their heels
When they hear the sound of the guns
Of the men and women of the underworld.
Those that dare, end up
Paying with their beloved and sacred lives!
What do their families get in return
For their utmost gallantry in service
To their beloved fatherland,
A paltry sum and so called
State burial with a procession and coffin
Covered with the green and white flag.
Is that all that should be given
To those with whom our lives are entrusted?
Someone answer please...
Are we developing?

Business minded individuals
Who wish to establish themselves are scared.
Some have no capital
And when they dare approach a bank
Collateral which they have not
Is the deciding factor, hence they go
Back home having nothing in their hands.
Those that squeeze and drain to establish
Are often exploited and sent packing
By the government through insensitively
Exorbitant and backbreaking taxes
For a business which is yet
To stand on its feet.
Are we developing?

Graduates are churned out of varsities
 On a yearly basis with little hope for the future.
Some of them dare the unemployment scourge
And face the farmlands.
But lo and behold!
The lands are either sold to high handed capitalists,
Turned to high costing estates or
Have been seized up by the government for its use
Mostly wasteful ventures.
What do these budding minds do?
An idle mind being the devil’s football pitch,
In a bid to survive,
Most take to the easy hard way of life
And become hardened criminals.
Are we developing?

Prisons are meant to be reformation centres
But Nigerian prisons are destruction centres.
When in the house,
Inmates are sparsely fed and clothed,
When they leave the den,
No provision is made for their return.
So, to survive,
These returnees return to their former lives
With reinforced and renewed zeal plus expertise.
Are they to blame?
Therefore I ask for the umpteenth time,
Are we developing?


© Yettocome™ 2010

Friday 15 November 2013

The Heartbreaker

The Heartbreaker
You left me
Left me by myself
With lots of pain in my heart.
Every time, every day, every night, every...
 I reminisce about your leaving
I remember you walking down the hall
In breakage of your promise
To walk with me down the aisle

Then it was my fault
I think on remembering.
But come to think of it,
Is it my fault? Or was it my fault?
I could remember that
I met you in my times of plenty
When life was good to me
When life gave me abundance of rain
When all pointed me in the reign.
You attracted me with your beautiful
Flawless face, perfect body and straight legs.
I came running to you with my proposal.
You taunted me for a while
Two months, I think, more or less
It matters not, what matters was that
At the end of the wait,
You said, ‘Ay’ to me which
To me was a joyous thing cos, were it a year,
I was ready to wait since you were
Worth every moment of the wait.

That was the beginning of our journey
Of romance so blissful.
We chatted, talked, gisted, discussed
Everything in the world. Including our life
After we would have tied the nuptial knots.
As introverted as I was,
You brought out the latent traits
That were hidden in me.
You taught me how to love which made me
Jettison all the warnings, hearsays, rumours
And accusations by friends and family alike
That you were with me for the honey
Which life gave to me in my hive.
I told them off and backed you in all.
Everything you said I believed,
So, where did I go wrong?

You were so angel like
That I was blind to your faults
You preferred the eatery to the kitchen
You never drank pure water cos
You always fell in love with Eva water.
You loved the dry cleaner more than hand washing,
You loved the cinema more than our TeeVee and video.
You loved shopping at the Palms Mall
On the Island rather than going to Oke Aarin
You were never in love with public transport
Chattered rides free of stress was your likeness.

All the bills I bore complainlessly
Since I believed that nothing is too
Much and small for the love of my life.
Moreover, the dough is there
So, why hold back in spending it!!!

Then life came with thorns
In place of the roses I had. It gave me galls
Rather than the honey. The bees refused
To excrete honey. The hive got dried up.

It all started with an unwise dealing
On my part in my line of business.
I was dealt a cruel card to play.
And since I tried reshuffling the deck
To no avail and since all the cards I picked
Are tainted with blackness, I resigned to fate,
And started popping the business corn
Which the business world had thrown in my
Popcorn machine lest it got burnt. All these
You were aware of as I hid nothing
From you, so you were aware
Aware that life that was rosy had now
Become sour. Then, it came crashing down.
Your behaviour changed, your love for me
Became gradually worn out. It became like,
Then dislike, then hatred, then despise!!!

All praises disappeared. Blames replaced
The show of love. I now became the black
Sheep to you and not the cynosure of your eyes.
The golden egg that was once laid
By the golden hen were both forgotten by you
Then you tied me to the tree of yew.
Now that both the egg and the hen have
Become broken and dead, you chose the
Easiest one of many options in life
That is facing the exit door!!!

I still can’t believe that the love of my life
Has left me. The space you left in my heart
Has made me ill and sick. My once whole
And healthy heart you shattered mercilessly.
Then I remembered what my family and friends
Told me about you.
That you were in love with my money
And never with me.
Such a sorry case for me!!!

Thank God!!!
Thank God that I am getting over
With the heartbreak you inflicted on me
Thank God that I am getting back on my feet.
Life is giving me back my rose
Life is now dealing me favourable cards
Life has reshuffled the deck in my favour.
Life has made my efforts yield results.
But you are not here to witness it
Not there to witness my rise once again.
But still,
Anytime I hear footsteps down the hall,
I remember you leaving me
For good and for life!!!

CLOSURE... A SONNET

Though my heart by you was broken
Grateful will I always be for the token
Of love and life you into my life brought
And of the care and attention you wrought
On me. These I resolved can only be sought
Out and I intend to find, since it can’t be bought
With all the currencies I just came about.
Needed not is the help of a marabout
But the prayers of the saint
That reside in places that is without taint.
And eat and drink that which is holy and clean
And not that which with filth is fat or lean!

Oh Lord my God!!! You I beseech fervently
To make whole again my broken heart perfectly!

© Yettocome™ 2012
My Work, My life... Yet another view...

My Work, My life. Twenty one sitting Seventy standing... Naija my country...
My Work, My life. Twenty one sitting Seventy standing... Naija my country...
My Work, My life. Twenty one sitting Seventy standing... Naija my country...

My Work My life

Thursday 14 November 2013

CONRATSATION



Conratsation

I was just back from a long tiring journey
Bread and Akara in a nylon bag
To serve me as a tasty dinner
I settled down sleepily
To eat myself prescribed balanced diet
After which I washed it down
With a sachet of cold pure water
 Setting the stage for a peaceful
Night sleep which is to follow.

I lied on my back
To get the much needed sleep
Which came not too long after
I had slept for God-knows-when
When a sound near my bed woke me.
Being stone tired
I opened my sleep infested eyes a little to see
A most daring sight which took sleep
Completely off my heavy eyelids.
Picking comfortably the crumbs of bread
And Akara which I forgot to clear
Before sleeping off was a rat...

The rat was small, dark
With its characteristic long tail and whiskers.

I took care not to scare it off
Got a good hold of myself
And launched an assault for it
Hoping to catch it with my bare hands.
My attack was successful
Because it had thought I was deep asleep
And also enjoying his God given meal.

Safe in my hands,
I looked at it and said
“You are very brave, you saw me lying on
The floor and you dare come and eat
Near me. Don’t you know I’ll wake up?”
I said this without any thought
Of getting any response but
I got a shocker when the rat opened his mouth and replied,
“I know you were asleep
But because of you, won’t I eat?”
The shock almost made me drop him
But I recovered and thus began our conversation.

“Why do you live in houses?”
“Because there is plenty of supply of food.”
“Why do you destroy our foods?”
“Because we have to eat.”
“Why do you come out only when it is dark?”
“Because it is blinding by day
But very soon, we will get sunglasses just like you humans
And we will be able to conduct our business
During the day and rest at night.”

“Do you know that very soon you will go into extinction
Because of the rate at which we kill you?” asked I
“We can’t go into extinction
Because the more you kill us
The more we give birth.
We don’t control our birth like you humans,
And since you people still live in houses,
We will still increase in population.” He replied.

“Do you know that we hate your guts
And prefer your brothers in the bushes?” Pressed I.
“I know that, but what you humans don’t know
Is that we are more nutritious than
Our bush brothers .
We eat everything you eat
But they only eat grasses.
We are grateful you don’t eat us
So we are going to increase our birth rate.” Boasted he.

This statement said by him
I thought for some minutes
And found to be true.
But I remained unperturbed firing another salvo,
“Why do you hate cats?”
“We don’t hate them, some of them hate us.
But because they eat us,
That is why we avoid them but you don’t know.
If you humans also eat us,
We will depart from your home.
But never worry, we are working
On a pally with the cats;
So look out.” Said he emphatically.

“Why don’t some of you die after eating Indocid?”
You humans don’t know that
We also drink water.
After eating Indocid,
We begin to feel funny
Then we drink water, any water!
Then we drink water and the result is
We don’t die. Only those that
Never have the chance to drink water
Die after eating Indocid. So, man
Get something more powerful and effective.”

The conversation would have gone on
But for my sleepy eyes and his family’s call
To him. I know they have a den
Somewhere unknown to me in my roomy palace.

At this stage, I know not what
To do with him, whether to kill him
Or let him go
Or even strangle him
Or even eat him,
To test his claim to nutrition and balanced diet
Content in his hairy, smelly and small body.
But I decided against others
And choose to threaten him.
And Lo! It worked for me!!!
This is what and how I did it...

“Now,” said I
“I will leave you to go.
When you get to your smelly hole,
Tell your family that you should
Get your dirty smelly selves out of my room forever
Because if you don’t,
Anytime I catch you, I will roast,
Boil, cook, and fry you before eating you.
Is that clear?” shouted I.
At this, he began to shiver
Then he said, “Clear, very clear!”
So I set him down and to his hole, he ran.

To his family he ran and off I slept.
What transpired among them I knew not.
But since then, noticed I,
Not a single rat is to be found
In the vicinity of my palatial room...

So friends,
Why not try this out
And rid your home of this pestilence
Called Rats!!!


© Yettocome™ 2010


The Fornicator

The Fornicator... a friend’s Confession

Despite several warnings
In spite of several hearings
In spite of several admonitions,
I fell into it
Into what I had dreaded
Into what I had been running from
While I was running away from it
I never knew I was running
With my face facing backwards
Thus I ran into it.

But I thank Him
That He inspired her to prevent
My total fall or shall I say
That He saw my efforts
And decided to cushion my fall
Through His inspiration in her
That I did not use the right one alone
But used another as a cover to it.
But come as it may,
Fornication is fornication.
Her body isn’t mine yet
Thus it is fornication.
Mine is not hers yet
Thus it fornication.
Though it is the order of the day
You might see me in another light
But that doesn’t mean I
Should go with the crowd.
Cos I have my own life to lead
And the crowd its life to live
And when I am called to account for it,
The crowd won’t be an intercessor for me
Nor when it is called to account for its
I will not be an intercessor for it.

Let nobody judge others
Cos we know not
What led to their committing it,
And I said I was strong enough
To be my own guard
And lived my life carelessly my own way.
I was told that I can escape if she is not
Willing to have me to herself
In this game. Which I passionately detested.
But lo and behold!
I never lent a work to the talk
And so it came to pass
On a noisy-quiet night
With the twp of us alone
It’s not the first time
And there was no sign to warn me
Else I would have prevented it.
The sleep was undisturbed till
I was awoken at a god-knows-when time
Feeling absolutely super charged
I dismissed the probing fingers
Turned and slept another round.
GOD!!!
Or rather should I say
DEVIL!!!
I could not take and resist it again
And at that moment,
All my reasoning was gone!
The only thing on my mind
Was how to relieve myself
Of this burning punishment all over me!!!

I turned over and it became
Escalated kisses, searching and probing fingers.
It is true that it takes two to tango.
She was action-ready and knew
What she wanted
How to get what she wanted
And how she is to get it and go about it.
Women!!!
I doff my hat to you.
Before I could say Jack Robinson
I was yanking off all the clothes I had on
The same clothes I thought would protect me
Sorry, that I thought were barriers.
They were not!
I was searching instinctively
For where to bury this punishing feeling in me!
But I believe God in His mercies
Helped me and she said
“It’s just to show you that you are powerless
And no resistance from you can stop a woman
From having you if she wants you in her.”

She mercifully continued,
“Since I know you aren’t ready
To become a father, take this.”

Then I used it after I took it!!!
Can you believe it? That which I disliked
A rubber! I mean the C. D!!!
Though it had been a long time
That I last did this thing
Which was why I resisted all previous attempts
But I used it all the same
Since, as she said, I was not ready
To father any lad or lass out of wedlock
I took the condom she offered
And gratefully and hurriedly wore it
And commenced my sinful action once again!
I started the journey
And only ended when I felt relieved
Of the burden and punishment in me...

Then it dawned on me
That I had just fallen into the very pit
That I had been running away from
Since and after I had been drenched in it.
And it all came flooding back
The first time, second, third,
The warnings, the talks, the repentances,
And the rest. Then this one again!!!

Then I agreed that
You can’t resist a woman
Except, by His grace on you!!!

CLOSURE (A SONNET)

My conscience won’t let me rest
That’s why I tried my best
To put these thoughts of a friend into lines
That relief might come down my spines
And that He may forgive
The transgression that I in these lines give
As a guarded guide to men in the world
That they may run from this snake curled
Around females which makes men fall
Willingly or otherwise into the game and play ball.

Painfully said and guiltily conceived
Are these unhappy lines to me
Let the reader not be deceived
But the wisdom therein, he should see.  

© Yettocome™ 2012