Snapsong 104

Niyi Osundare

If all dreams came true

The world would be full of nightmares

 

The inner rags of politics

Always swarm with a liturgy of lies

 

Wrong rights and right wrongs are inseparable cousins

The choice sometimes chooses the chooser

 

Kenimani* stands on the hill

Watching the world drown in its own tears

 

“We bleed when cut”

The Tree Tribe declares to the greedy axe

 

Accidents don’t just happen

They are caused in actual terms

 

A wise creditor never misses

A prayer for his debtor’s welfare

 

Having graduated from their blackness

They are now proud members of Honorary White Caste

 

The lobster boasts it is a champion scorpion:

Tell it to show the world the fire in its tail

 

When I become the Emperor of Theatre

I will proclaim the Anti Impersonation Decree

 

Put a small man in a big office

Watch him reduce that office to his puny size

 

If you throw a stone into a crowded market

The missile may land on your mother’s head

 

*Ill-wisher; mean and selfish person

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