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Samuel Ibok Nigeria Customer Service Representative @ Ibom Air
In Africa • 1 min read •
AfriCAN

Why are we not the authors 

Of our stories

Why does the plot twist

Us 

Relegates us

Because 

Us us 

Went Off course

Of course

Now cursed

Horse Horse

Purse paused

Puff puff

Cough cough

Silent bluffs

Fancy cuffs

Are still cuffs

curved us

Our Laws 

Now was

Outlaws 

In their wars

Man falls

God calls

Walls walls

Our loss

Us us

Passersby and standbys

We say bye

Cus we can't buy

Puppets and poor pets 

They said 

If we're up set

We might upset

Or offset

So they off set

Gift us handsets

Then reset

I 

Hi

High

Why

Sigh


We're merely cast

Out of sight

Not in mind 

Mind you 

We're 

Left to write

In term papers 

And sound like them

is your name Abasiakan or Godwin

Abasiakan I sound like them

We're living their anthem

They make mockery of my mother tongue 

That's another wrong 

We've made right

Our accents

Are Godsent

Who are you to yust come and yudge me

The cradle slowly

Snuffed of it's candle

We're not superman

But there are things we do 

that clark kent

So we Decrypt tonight

Never again 

Listen, 

this is salvation

For a nation born again

Before the ink

And whatsapp groups

We updated our status

Through plays In the village square

Circle back 

We told tales by Moonlight 

and ticked talks

By elders

Our values were our trophies 

Our Arsenal, community shielded


Break free

These are not perfect words

Nor weak words

This is free dorm

Not OK word's

But KO'S

It's a new dawn

Has always been

Even before moon go park 

Remember who you are and where you're from

You're not less







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