And Twenty-Twenty Two Is a Wrap?

 

As rusty as an abandon iron,

Golden but not glowing,

Lice makes this thick jungle its abode,

This is the state of her once glowing hair.

The leftover of her already rotten body,

Wallows in horse dung,

Which enrich it with breath damage aroma,

This is the state of her once man-falling beauty.

As bad as she is,

The creator do to her as He pleases,

In her, is a generation unborn,

But who knows its species.

Can anything good comes out of this Nazareth?

When eléyelé is the water that this baby swims in on the inside,

Can anything good comes out of mother Nigeria,

When the genes of the wild cats is already energizing the unborn.

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LAWAL Faruq Opeyemi popularly known as Yemi_Pen is a student of University of Ibadan studying Educational Management. He is a young creative writer that man the beautiful gate of poetry. The winner of UI’SU Most Creative Writer Award 2021.