AYA MI O JA (NOT SCARED)

Epo nbe e wa, n be o
Aya mi o ja lati bi ibeji.

I am not scared.
To love you without restraints.
To scream "f*ck off" to my friends who urge me not to.
To carry you on my weak shoulders and spin you around in the park.
To lift you and race down the shorelines of the Elegushi beach.

Aya mi o ja.
Though the counselors urge against it.
Though the preachers call down fire against its conception.
Though the imam's waasi centers on kicking it out.
And the herbalist dibia drops twenty sacrifices at the crossroads, just to stop it.
I WILL STILL GIVE YOU MY HEART.

"All die na die" They say.
I would rather die in yours.
Gazing lovingly into your eyes while the love poison takes its course.

"Something must kill a man" They say.
I rather it comes from you.
Though I know that our love is undying.
A spark ignited from heavens and confirmed on earth at the moment I saw you.

They all tell me to fear a woman.
Never to trust them for they will wreck me.
Never to love them totally for they will stab me in the back.

I took one look at them and laughed.
Pitying their ignorance and cursing their bloated sense of esteem.
For they think they know better than God who created them.

The God, who calls you 'my support'
The God who said 'You have found a GOOD thing' at the moment I saw you.
The God who in His infinite wisdom destined men to be born through women.

Aya mi o ja o jere
If loving you is to be a crime,
I would gladly spend eternity in the cell.
With the thoughts of you keeping my heart warm.
And the visual picture of you reminding me that I have found a GOOD THING
#Bashorun

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