Morenike

Let me call your Name

Morenike! Let me use it as a song

For true love have no wrong

It’s always there wherever you turn

 

I will shout your Name

Morenike! You are a balm to heart’s pains

Bringing joy non-stop like season rain

You bring more hope filled in a train

 

My heart will keep mentioning your Name

Morenike! I found you in a land

A land many called an empty land

But found you when I dogged dip with my hand

 

My friends are calling your Name

Morenike! They all say am lucky

Pslam 31 woman who will takeaway worry

Bringing peace of mind in a lorry

 

I have found a real treasure

I will call you my Morenike

Listen O ye trees mo ti ri eni ti mo le ke

Rejoice with me I found eni ti mo le ke

 

Oluwole Ayinla (Mc.Smatt). November, 2012

 

Abaramoreje

Abaramoreje

The cosmos was made and it was good

A master piece of creativity personified

To immortals it was given as custodians

Freedom was given and choice was currency

Am confused as I write these lines

The thought of a snail destroying its shell

Such was the case of these terrestrial beings

Little by little the shell is crumbling

Unto us cosmos was given as stewards

We began to device ways for better living

On this voyage we are destroying the tower

Tower that has been our protective cage

I look and see a massive abuse

Because she’s not vocal they continued

With tears rolling down her eyes

The pains like a woman in labor

You take from her never given back

You labour her yet choose to starve her

She opens her arms with no reservations

Yet these arms you inflict injuries and hurts

Push to the wall with no more space

Now the silent is now speaking

Now faced by her wrath we are confused

Thousands dies at her every enunciation

Oluwole Ayinla (Mc.Smatt). November, 2012

She was sixteen

She was sixteen

The teenage years started

Physical expression runway started

The baby’s treasure becomes pronounced

I look around and see stares paraded

 

What is it about you

Everyone is talking about you

Is that all these applicants see a treasure

Or they see another victim for pleasure

 

Wisdom called on the street

Shouting with passion from his tree

The words of the elders you ignored

Now by all of them you have been abandoned

 

You are now thirty six years old

Now all the men say you are too old

Each time you look at your face

You weep because the beauty has fade

 

Remember when you were sixteen

A good home was part of your dream

Now everything has changed

 Begging for any husband to be named

 

 She used to be sixteen

 

 

Oluwole Ayinla (Mc.Smatt). October, 2012

 

Where are the Jingle Bells

Where are the jingle Bells

We are already in the month October

The second month on the months of ‘Bers’

The beginning of the holidays

When the families gather rejoicing for spent days

 

Growing up if we can all remember

Jingle bells start ringing from October

Now we are in September

Celebration mood looks far not closer

 

Where are the jingle bells?

What has the country done to the bells?

Has the country situation mute the bell?

Or the millennium age overtook the bell

 

It used to be so sweet

The joy then was so real

The whole family countenance glowed

When the Christmas melody flowed

 

Where are the jingle bells?

Where are the Christmas Carols?

Where are the silent nights?

Bring back the days of early jingle bells

 

Oluwole Ayinla (Mc.Smatt). October, 2012

I am BacK

I am back

Poetry was the way I live

Never thought days would come

When situation help put a pause

To what to me was second nature

The inspiration never stop coming

But this was a period of academic writing

I always knew a part of me I was missing

Poetry’s passion never stopped flowing

Several water have flowed things are changing

Kere O! The gong is ringing

Heralding the return of poetry voice

Let the bush rabbit listen

Go and tell the house rabbit to hasten

Am back! Mode O! Na dawo!

 

Oluwole Ayinla (Mc.Smatt). October, 2012

 

 

Resolution or Revolution (Who needs who?)

 

Thinking about the years past, I noticed that my collection of female friends kept growing. I became concerned when the words of Grandpa came rushing to my memory, ‘my son beware of woman, they have caused the fall of many great men.’ Entering the New Year, I decided to cut all my female friends except for my family members.

January First, I felt cool; it was as if the whole weight of world which was on my shoulder has been lifted off. I was feeling like a new born baby. The next 3 days of January was normal with few flashes of my close female friends who came to my mind which I was able to deal with. Honestly speaking, this new life style was cheap because I was not responsible to any lady either for call or other expenses.

Then things began to change from 5^th to 15^th of January, it was a tug of war in my mind and as man who prefers physical battles to psychological battle, I wasn’t enjoying this. This war raged in my mind and as the day goes by the more the war was overwhelming me.

January 16^th, it became physical. The internal wars where affecting my physical body. It started with little head ache, by January 20^th it had spread to all the part of my body and I began to high temperature. God! I can’t understand this? The last time I broke down physically was about 10 years ago with typhoid fever. What type of fever can I call this?

My mother couldn’t stand this any more and forced me to the hospital. After running some test, the doctor strongly advised that I should be admitted in the hospital though no specific ailment has been discovered; my health condition was a great source of concern and needed further testing and close monitoring to discover signs and symptoms.

Five days in the hospital my health condition did not change which made my mum and the medical staff worried, this was the 25^th day of January. January 26^th a young nurse was assigned specifically to attend to me. Her name is Titilayo, popularly called ‘Titi.’ God! She was so beautiful, her smile could light up the whole hospital and could be noticed by patience in the surrounding hospitals; there was something ‘nursey’ about her. I mean she was made and packaged in heaven and sent to earth majorly for me.

After been attended to be nurse Titi, we got fond of each other. The next day my high body temperature began to drop. She continued to show special care and attention to me and my health, she spent all her free hours with me. It was as if we new each other from eternity, she made me recover faster than any drug on planet earth can do. January 30^th, the doctor instructed that I should be discharged immediately as I was now hail and hearty, she said my recovery was the fasted he as witness ever since he started practicing, the doctor also wanted me to go home because after my recovery, I have became too much of a distraction to one of his best nurse.

February 1^st, I came back home and have now re-opened the close door to my female friends. I am still pondering how my New Year resolution or revolution has ended. Now tell me, WHO NEEDS WHO?