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L.A.G.O.S (Poetry) by lordthunderbolt(m): 8:26am On Aug 10, 2018 |
This is lagos A city of peace in a thousand chaos A city of plastic tins and many tin gods Rising stars and fallen albatross Welcome to a city of angels and demons Fair weather friends and abominations Those who have grapes and sour lemons Those who never abandon A land of many task masters Waters filled with lurking disasters Over riped gutters filled with adorable adulterers Many ladies over coloured in mascaras! All hail the gods of iron that creak the roads! The countless wails of their crispy boats The stinking sweats struggling with the over worn coats Packaged illiterates toiling and cursing on their yellow throats! A land of freedom in slavery! Mean souls with extreme savagery A loving mother cuddling a hopeful imagery Everybody is rich in lagos is the painful summary! Lagos is like a promiscuous bride! Calling everyone and tossing all her suitors aside! Lagosians have lived with her pains beside From the deep slumps of Ikorodu to the Lekki sea side The bright side If you have never been to lagos besides You would have to feel it's pulse on the inside Many souls whose lives are spent in buses and pent houses The countless sound booths wailing on the dark streets Folks dance away their sorrows with the jazz beats While people shake their violent butts with impending deceit These are the daily lives of the scythe and the elites They are men who feel like gods who would never die Hard-hearted men with fearsome pot bellies like flies Sexual predators with ritual sacrifices whom many authorities cannot defy The ugly side of the coveted beautiful bride Hard working men who with sweat have toiled Some have seen the day and night boiled Some whom benevolent spirits have their kernels cracked And those whom the gods have forgotten and soiled A city of a thousand voices and solvent screams Buried In ecstacy and groans in a geiser of screens Pantomime characters mincing and menacingly extremes A City of many progresses and aborted dreams Our society has refused to listen to the voices of those who have lost Neither the voices of those who are lost These voices sum up the brutal cost Of living in a land mixed with lust and exhaust Words will never define all the happenings in this land From otodo-gbame to Victoria island We can only say the few and their brand Forgive if you haven't been mentioned those mentioned are popular demand Lagos is the only possession for the very many All they ever have and all they hope is in this genie They cannot leave this city nor go back to aunty jennie who have more properties than them living in this city Lagos is the dream cast for those with talents Dreams fantasy to those who are resilient Those whom with only two pairs of clothes have vowed accomplishments They are the owners of lagos and all her enrichment The endless opportunities The endless wretched communities The frustrating ambiguities Is the hall mark of lagos countless abnormalities You cannot exist in this city except you are partially insane It's not a city where folks fear disdain When the time is right men act as though on cocaine And the ladies many who beat up men Sweet lagos they said and they took me on a plane The tall buildings and their alluring window pane The beautiful cars and the endless complain Loan sharks who crawl lagos to deceive with mysterious chains I have spent myself marking this city loan sharks pray for victims in their kitty Pretend to have pity Then arraign you in a torrents of activity Pharm Odudu Akpaete |
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