BOBOLAIYEFA

i am Bobolaiyefa
begging bread on Lagos left-over streets
with the bleating goats and barking dogs struggling with me
i am the common face unknown in the neighbourhood
the miasma that hangs around selfish lives

i am Bobolaiyefa
bending down below earth’s below to feed
on earth’s rottenness
what brought me here is not madness
it is you and my people’s mindlessness

i am Bobolaiyefa
who are you and who is your father?
have you heard wisdom out of insanity?
know not life’s travails yet you claim wisdom
who taught you its lessons?

i am Bobolaiyefa
enter my shoes and tell where they pinch
is everything inch by inch a cinch?
see your incurable madness around me
but how many of you think!

@ biife
What does "Bobolaiyefa" mean?

, tough question!
no thanks to my imagination; in my mind it means

the man, the woman, the boy, the girl- anyone
out there living on garbage,

on many occasions, they\'re there because of
our mindlessness or madness.

our society doesn\'t bother to take care of its sick ones.
aren\'t we sick- ourselves- by that inaction?

but then, you didn\'t tell what impression
the poem have on you,

any word?

how did you come about that name? are you from the niger delta?

, am in trouble with the militants?

imagination threw the name on me o!

i am not from niger-delta,

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A poet denying his roots too too sad.

really? nah. it\'s just a poetic piece picked
from mental anguish of societal indifference

i\'ve never been any close to niger-delta,
am from ibadan!

Cool.

it's a good poem.

Good poetry.

u mean bobolayefa edon?

Nice one,