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Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
Should I credit the Romans
Believing we are opposite the Mediterranean
After the tribe of Berber
Somewhere around Tunisia
Then “Suna’ed” us Africa

Oh the land of fruit and corn!
How blessed thou art
The cradle of human civilization
Someday we shall ask the Phonecians
How two words: "friqi" and "pharika
Combined to make Africa

As they all jostled to take credit
Driven by the zest to unlearn, learn and relearn
“Na dem oh!” The Greeks, they chose “Aphrikē”
Because we are free from cold and horror
A summation of fify-four beautiful countries
So my dear, Africa ain’t no country
It’s a beautifully endowed continent

Theories can be rationalized
So, I beg to defer, “No be only Africus”
How can a Yemeni invade our continent?
And also get the bragging rights
I refuse to accept “Africa” is a Yemenite invader
“Hapana Sio kweli”

Whether from the explorers, westwards
Or the traders from India
Whoever conjured the name “Mother Africa”
Surely deserves some accolades
Your next vacation, destination Africa
Come my friend, come
You’ll be glad you did

Though rich, yet under-developed
Slowly but surely we have progressed
This, grossly under-reported by your media
We are a continent blessed with “All”
Don’t die until you experience our hospitality
Maybe, just maybe, together we can take a walk
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
You already chose your part
You lost your right to live
When you inserted your ***** funnel
Into her precious black gold
What more do you have to leave for?
Nothing

Not only was this pre-meditated
You were determined and intentional
A true incarnate of the dark world
Just that you know
The trauma lives with her
She's got Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

If we forgive, we'll never forget
Not only should you be castrated
You should be riddled with bullets
Your kidney fed to Dogs
While the vultures stand guard
Their duty, to clean up the mess

If you ask her to let it fly
Because he is family
Or you got compensated
You should be sentenced to death
Preferrably by hanging
Afterall, you aren't the victim

It's time to let it out and be free
It's time to shame these monsters
We might not all believe
But you owe your generation your story
Receive courage for conquest
Then, the grace of goodbye
Start talking...
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
If he takes you to an hotel
Like a cheap *******
And deny you a sleep over
Or take you a friends'
Forget it, he is married

If he drives a family car
Avoid your calls at night
If his generator makes "Futufutu"
Instead of "kpaka kpakaka"
Sistos, "Jappaa", he is married

Some don't wear rings
They give you confirm "lamber"
My wife lives abroad with kids
The callous says, "My wife don die"
Fear them, "gbez"

I'm sorry, I don't do single guys
The older the berry, the better
They'll confess they are married
This is advanced investigations technique
Run! Before they steal your destiny

A single sweet Lady
Dating and faithful to a married man
This is the highest level of foolishness
You need complete brain reset
What you sow, may you reap
Can I have an amen!
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
If Ondo is used for settlers
And Ogun is a river
Tell me about Oyo, an empire

You mispell Gwosh as Jos
Recognised Sokoto, a market
Far away from Osun, a river

Lakes is to Lagos
As Kogin is to Kogi
And Kebbi is synonymous to Ka'abba

Janzama, women power inspired Katsina
But Kano was a Blacksmith
While Kaduna means Crocodile

The people of the golden soils of Jigawa
To the river Imo Mmiri
They don't speak Gombe at all

Take me to the hills of "Enu Ugwu"
Following the hills in "Okiti"
Without navigating through Iduu

All Ebonyi are "Aboine"
Close the Delta that marries the atlantic
And Oyono, makes you Cross River

Don't say Benue, say "Binuwe"
Balga, Yelga, Salga formed Bayelsa
And I love Kasashen Bauchi

"Anyim Oma Mbala kwenu!"
But I love ladies from "Kwa Iboe"
Only legends understands this

Tell them I told you
Adamawa is a warrior
While Abia is a coinage

If I missed your state
Go back to the history books
This is just a drill...
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
We were the book
It was flowing nicely
Until you turned it
Then I burnt the book
Case closed
"Au revoir Ma Cheri"
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
Lost in your charm
Entrapped by your beauty
If only I was a child of the night
In the company of these deadly beauties
It will be pleasure forever more

I'll move from chamber to chamber
And elope to yonder place
I don't care the cost
I just want the frills
To die in you; a milestone

I'll give anything for your love
Should I die, then wake up
Let it be in your arms
Lost in your world
A world of unimaginable ecstasy
Babatunde Raimi Apr 2020
You are a hero in my book
A chord in my fret
A perfect definition of grace
Because you are a hero in my book

Real heroes are sacrificial
They live that others may live
They are the gods that we know
Soldiers without arms

You are a hero in my book
Because you stepped up and took charge
Gave us hope in a hopeless world

To a Poet, you are "The line"
A writer, "The Book"
A songwriter, the verse
But to us, you're our Hero...

One day we'll tell a story
Not of Voltron or Superted
Superman or PJ Mask
And made the world a better place
Then, a story of once upon a time
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