A Silent Conpiracy

It is a silent conspiracy!

You used to shout and scream,

In those days

When hope was still at touching distance,

Words used

To flow and flow

When you were

Shouting and screaming

About those who burn our pottage.

But now your silence deadens

Our expectant eardrums

It is a silent conspiracy!


Who has kidnapped the tongue of the growling lion?

What has shut the gates of your mouth?

It is a silent conspiracy!


You used to teach and preach

 In those days

When hope was still at touching distance,

We listened to sermons and lectures,

Teaching and preaching,

About  the power of words and ideas.

But have we been fed by con-men?

Your tastes have changed

It is a silent conspiracy!


Dining and wining

On the highest tables,

And now you join the Pirates of silence

Who seek to entangle us

In their world of empty words

It is a silent conspiracy!


I have questions

For all Pirates of silence,

Con-men who hide under the umbrella of silence,

All who conspire with their silence

To keep us in chains

Do your noses still detect

The odour of burnt pottage?

Or does the fat pay slip

Now imprison your conscience?

It is a silent conspiracy!

Allow me Rest

I run go north

East and west no where I no enta

And man scatter go south

Eferibodi dey ask say

wetin I dey fain.


I climb Kilimanjaro

I waka waka for Sahara

I enta ocean like fish

People thin say man

Wan run mental.


Wetin I dey fain?

I fain am for sleep

I fain am for chop

I fain am for work

Wetin I dey fain?


I no fit challenge Tyson

I no be Maradona

But dem nefer born de person

Wey go stop me from

De thin I dey fain.


Na immediate I see you

Na immediate I see you

My mind jus coole

like ocean breeze:


Make you allow me rest

I don see wetin I dey fain

Make you allow me rest

Becos na you I dey fain.