A call for retribution

By:AJISEBUTU ADEYEMI JOHN

A CALL FOR RETRIBUTION

you are the fearful one
Dreaded by your fateful
You are the club that clubs the defiant
The bee that stings
The angry rattle snake
Whose venom purges the devil
Of devilish evil.
The dreaded one that tames wizards
And clips wings of flying humans
The spirit that silences shrieks
Of wandering black cats at night
You are the police that apprehend
Stubborn blood sucking neighbors
Vulcanizer that inflates the belly
You are the thunderous punch
Punching thunderously thieving souls.

No one swears in vain
Before your holy shrine
And leaves unscathed
But why are you snoring
When the land is plundered
By those who swore by Him
Who is slow to anger?
Why are you so indifferent
When in vain the guardians promise
To protect our cake
And guard our treasury?
As they waive their soiled hands
On horses riding in pride.

Let's bear them before you
Who must be our eyes over there.

Let them by your shrine swear
Let them swear that their pen
Would not backslide
By you let them swear
That their plundering hands would not stray
Into the pregnant treasury of your father land.

Drag your sword and wield your club
Strike them who dare you
Let them drown in the river of their tea cups
Those who fail to give us water
Let them be burnt to death
By the lights of their pipes
Those who refuse to give us light
Let them be swallowed by famished roads
Those who would not give us roads
Let their certificates be gnawed by termites
Those who bolt the doors of knowledge
Against our children