2023 Musings

 2023 and Beyond: Musings

Long we waited

Almighty year came and here lay the fear of motherland

Swirl political stage for the players

But to us running in spiralling tunes like it was swange

And our naira trapped for their safe

EluPee Jagaba ,Balabluen to feedeeefeee

Mixed splash emotions

A symphony of pain, joy and despair

From swapping naira colours to food prices

That ran to Zuma rock where no common man had a chopper to climb

Miles gone from 2023

Everything is racing beyond pace

We are looking back on this walk

Was 2019, 2015, 2011 better ?

Japa or stay ?

Questioning and answering to gloomy hopes

When the day is awake

Do we ask ?

For the oil in our backyard is not ours?

Or the market man and man in power run us street ne ?

When will the pay day herald ululation in our homes

Than the fear of the debtor?

Or the gun man ravaging unprovoked?

Renewed hope , I promise me to be hopeful

Despair revived ?

Our thoughts ravaged in whirlwind

But we renew hope

For hope is our light in the tunnel

Even if Nigeria happened , again

Let Nigeria work for Nigeria

Ka Jimin

25.7.2024 V2

Beautiful alteration

Beautiful alteration 

The Love of what I know 

I felt the ‘owambe’

That is perhaps the only universal language we share

Yes! But how do I place ‘Swange’ by ‘Atilogwu’

How do I explain this unexplained?

Love is what you know.

If I describe the electrifying action of ‘genger’ and ‘asongu ashu’ over pounded yam 

You may spat it for ‘Ofensala’ but how about ‘kyegh sha Shwa (KSS)’

Who told you I would cherish the fondness of “edikang ikong”

Or the lavishing effect of “pomo”, prawns and periwinkle 

That garnish the sight, taste and varied veggies to savor?

I love the beauty of ‘anger’ but you do aso-oke 

Or will you compare ‘ewedu’ to ‘Okoho’?  

What happens to the sliming beauty of its strings? 

Perhaps your chest and tongue can savor the ‘akpo-achegh’ 

And to the dogs you will this Benue delicacy on wikipedia

You cherish Isha-Agu to the world but simple black and white lines run my head 

There lay a history and beauty the world adores

We are so beautiful, a great people 

Those red and black stripes, blue, black and white are colours to beat 

If I take ‘miyan-kukah’, I see ‘Gbodi ‘

So tell me about ‘Agidi’, ‘gbegiri’ and ‘ewa’, let me place ‘Gbache’, ‘igyande’ and ‘furum’ before you 

For I am on top of the world when these are walking along pounded yam 

I could only spare a thought about eba or fufu when the yam has one scare 

What a world apart, all for what I know 

So whether you look down on theirs, or mine I explore

Love is love of what you know 

Of our noble nature lay a basket of unending uniqueness  

These we share to the world like a beautiful meal

And each to the love they care 

Umunede 26.8.2019

Sontyo Jimin (c) Learning everyday

Stories for Someday

Hope

I will tell the tales 

Of wobbling and scold

That tomorrow wakes bright 

When smiles never quit

When my heart soliloquy

And is pinched its loneliness

It’s like being drowned

So yesterday tales will be 

What implausible emptiness!

What a world with just me 

In the  middle of  the land and seas 

Ahead, beside and behind

Yet in me alone

Lay the peace 

To be still

That the tales remain a story

Of my life Journey

Tomorrow and day light cant be held back

When the sun rises at dawn

so is each day we work and believe

when it is time

The tales of yesterday 

A story for someday

#hope#Sontyo Jimin2022

PAUSED WORLD

1.4.2016

I could breathe

But my heart Paused

Yet thoughts of you are alive

And all that exist in my world

Silence!

 

Across the table

Like we will sit

I could see you beam the smile

That I could just compare to Nature’s Beauty

Nothing!

 

You had borne my impatience

You confessed the imperfections

But you sat there

And so the evening laxed our jaws

Smile!

 

I am here at the table alone

In my mind I have your clone

A picture I will bear

And the Thoughts that can’t leave

Staring! Smiling!

 

But here at the table alone

I could plead to time

Take me back there!

I want the moment that paused my world reverted

Anger!

Poetry is indeed a true expression of feelings and thoughts and not just words

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Deserted

 

Deserted

Deserted to death

From homes the fathers wrestled 

With vigor and pride

Running to no where 

To camps of refuge unsafe 

From herders that roam and shepherd with guns

Deserted by the man 

The man at the centre with might 

To the hands of raging grablers 

Running to death from death 

To disease that caught unaware in an epidemic 

For the home is unsafe 

The centre is unsafe 

The village is made desert 

For all are a prey to the bandit and guns

COVID -19 Series

Rethinking the world

Like a glimpse
It is living with us

Within a peek
the change is here

our wold is paused
and the fear lives with us

so we share smiles
and hope that tomorrow wakes clashing today

With rare passion
We clutch the new order

So we watch the moments pass by
And learned though the times

It is a hard reality on our hands
That time and efforts will conquer

#Jimin
7.5.2020 COVID 19 series

Muted

The world

The songs

The streets

Markets

The pubs and café

The temples and synagogues

So if I write again….

Horror is walking the streets

The pain in far lands

Now walks near us

Yet our streets are teeming

Yet far for our sake

Our song is louder

For fear can only silence us a while

All is muting

So, we save our world

From the tiny droplets

Wrecking the space

Let all mute

Let the song go low

Until the sunrises again

We will amplify the stolen freedom

Jimin 7.4.2014

Thoughts from Lockdown

This owa Naija

This is owa Naija

See as them the look us

We look mad or we dey mad?

How come we get plenty but dey like this ?

Even the one thin we been get don the waka: PEACE

See as everyone dey fear and the run with plenty IDP camp

E go better Na our song

yeah our song

We no go give up for us

So today ma, we go dance

We are Nigeria and we go push our kokomoto for beta tomorrow  

Them dey chop our money

Yes, with pen and paper

Them dey fuel fight sef but wetin we know !

Na our Nigeria ,We die here e go beta

We dey together do beta

If we no celebrate, wetin we gain

But see Oga at the top, we want beta life for our country

Naija carry better, make una jus work make e reach everyone

Make we chop, we children go school

Make we get beta road and hospital wen person sick

Na too mush we ask?

We don the old oh

Jungle don suppose mature pass like this

Make we buid for we children

Make we ma make

Them no dey collect N20 again oh, them don old too now na N50 and above

Them the beat people like cow come even lock them sef

But we get power? Even the ones wey our thumb carry come we get ?

Even those ones with salary wey get potbelly

We fit question them

Kai ! We don suffer

Our matter plenty

We be strong people with plenty gifts

We go push but kai make the 4 years come go

We 60 years show, make e beta for every naija person

As e the hot !!!

Nigeria @59

Sontyo Jimin

30.9.2019