His Wealth 1

HIS WEALTH He was renowned for farming ploughing lands as large as atlantic but his harvests he keeps beyond the sea beyond the sea all he got Down here, his roof leaks his town roads untared they make use of his wealth to paint their town more white he thinks his wealth is safe but the value they use promising him security and secrecy to shut their mouth from his people his pots occupied by cockroach and rats as had been aboandoned by his wife his children grow everyday developing big belly and head He goes back to use ibeleju as lamp but he claims to be rich his children goes fishing to pay their fees the school fees he has refused to pay they built a school for their wards and beg them to look inside papers nobody pays a penny those are the people beyond the sea his wealth is intact but had been used times without number for their anuual budget they beyond the seas Worms leak his intestine and his offsprings from six to two he took their looks to the people the people beyond the sea they gave him a name "Malaria" Malaria took them all contented he came carring no less for his kwashiokor wards His bicycle like buried iron yet he appears before his kinsmen to speak in language that tingles they smirk at him though the gods let him live his expliots and wealth managed and utilized by the people the people beyond the sea he claims to be learned while they have brain washed him he trusted them and left our heritage the gods forbide our black heritage that our fathers died to protect like our brotherly love Our heritage that forbade greed he forgot our maxim that of Unison him that our fathers gave the "Ofor" the Ofor that represents power power to protect our interest our black interest the gods bear us witness witness of our unquenched suffering starving in front of plenty plenty at the so called bank banks beyond the sea banks the name for their civilised theft theft because they use the value the value of your wealth to reinforce themselve the Ofor has fallen from his hands the gods has departed from him but he will not believe our chambers now lagoons lagoons from the light shawers our tables now canoes and soup spoons paddle mosquitoes now our pets nursing our children our working age amended starting from 6 to sleep our heads now bald not from age but from fetching water water from the eden