If you walked past Orile by Sundown

Farah Izu
1 min readFeb 11, 2021

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If you walked past Orile by Sundown

Just where the confluence flings to Cameroon

You see southern women burn yellow plantains brown

and northern oceans float wrecked ships and pontoons,

You will notice as Doyin eyes himself adjacent ,

telling tales of angry wankers but wth heart & spirit,

burning down the law in their element,

squashing their tongues through their own teeth;

If you drove by Lekki at Sunrise

You will smell the destructive power of fire;

listen to how righteousness wails and justice decries

a sequence of events so dire,

Open your eyes and look around,

Look at tears falling in rewind

A land where faces stay frowned,

A hopeless place to grind

Pain without end;

And the Lord God will speak upon Zerubabbel saying..

In your loud and fearless voices,

You will circle the perimeter of your own conviction

Amisdt your pain and poor life choices,

you will mould a future of your own conscription;

You shall turn mad to call it fanfare

If you dare to suck a thumb, If you dare to imprint a screen

While Young Warriors engage projectile warfare

To break a bad spine, to pull a rotten spleen;

That glorious day of violence shall come through,

Shall I fuck up a rectum, bust a septum?

Big balls they had to confuse you though

To manipulate your comfort spectrum;

In this Lagos, we arrange, assemble, avenge!

And all Consequences must be televised

As long as status quo remains unchanged,

this revolution will be demonised

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