GRIEF

The cursed one, Emperor of near misses
Darkened luck, goons of eclipses
Withered Rose, lushless parlances
Perennial underachiever, disappointment no longer amazes.

The written letters, lot was all missing
Crying cellulars, the most kept wailing
Pivot dates, an end to no waiting
Against willpower, hope slowly withering

All around him ashes and cloud
Ashes over his fire, the things he’s gone through
Cloud ruling his mindly eyes, days to live through
Just when he thought about the cloud

Meteorite struck him, knocked off his doubt
360 degrees, turning him inside out
Enliven hope, making love sprout
Parallel direction, new love route

A dashing Ibo lady, came for his hands
Making love grow on the heart that’s gone bald
Making his dry lips drip her own
Whispering into his ears, words commanding the hormone

As time passes, they sat on the wreckage of the meteorite
Concocting a future so bright
With a supernatural being, unequalled in might
As the reality dons on me, I went back to Grief.




 (C) 2018
@KING_KOKO

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Na your Papa house?

We’ve all come to an agreement, that most of the sectors in Nigeria need some serious revamping. From education, to entertainment, to construction, no least house rent or tenancy law. Darn!! The stakeholders in this sector go about their activities displaying all the vices we were warned against:-tribalism, hatred for women, lack of trust in young ones, wanton greed, nepotism just to mention a few.

Starting from the agents, they are so greedy and heartless that they want gratifications from everyone, without even been of help to you yet. They don’t want to spend money at all to push their work. Ask for an apartment, they’ll reel the list in:- inspection money, airtime, data, even salary. No sympathy, they just want to eat your budgeted cash, no one bothers where you lay your head. When they get for you, after all your investments in them, you’ll still be required to pay 20% of your house rent, oluwa ooooo.  That’s extra 100k on a half a mil rent.

But you are still not done, landlords and caretakers love drawing blood. Demanding another 20% after the house rent. 10% as agreement and another 10% for caution(That’s extra 100k on a half a mil rent. Makes 700k package). While caution is still understandable, because it serves as a constant reminder and deterrence from misusing or being carefree with the amenities pre-installed in the apartment, what good does agreement do or what purpose does it serve? Like WTF?? Like, I have to pay the landlord, that I’ve agreed to take the house I came to pay its rent. Why did I come initially, was it to pay for the apartment and go sleep on the streets??

Then, the probing continues. Some people from a particular tribe are preferred over those from another. If you are Igbo, then it’ll take some wheat-like sieving. Some of them don’t even know the difference between Igbos and those from Middle-belt. If you sha aren’t Yoruba or Hausa, then you must be Igbo. That’s some narrow mindedness.

If you are a Christian or Muslim and the landlord doesn’t feel comfy with your religion, you’ll search farther and farther. If you are a young chap, they’ll say your money is not legit, hence they can’t give house to a yahoo boy. If you are a single man, they’ll worry why you are not married. If your work isn’t one with high salary or turn over, they’ll worry over how you’ll get subsequent payments.

If you are a single or unmarried woman, the hatred is even more. They feel you’ll be promiscuous. They feel you’ll be bringing men home week in, week out. They feel you’ll be rude and lousy when there are issues. They feel this, they feel that, they feel every emotion towards you except the positive ones. They don’t even think it twice. They want you to get married first, to prove you’re a responsible person so you won’t give them problem and so that they can relate with a perceived more understanding husband if there’s an issue. Isn’t this reasoning dumb?

What would we do to please these people?? Life happens to everyone and we all have to get a place to live regardless of our story. We can’t sleep outside, we can’t keep enduring ridicule just because of accommodation. There are good ones across the board though. S/o to them.

I feel the law has the biggest chance of redressing these injustices. Let the law take care of these issues, and let everyone have that access to the law in seeking justice. I know court appearances would increase, but I’d rather take my chances with the legal system than being the victim of this crop of stakeholders who are bunch of nitwits, retarded misogynists, privileged simpletons, fastidious tribalists and religious fanatics.

The sooner someone acts to quell this 'onslaught', the faster the melee ends.

@KING_KOKO

(C) 2019.

(c) 2018
@KING_KOKO

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OATH

We humans are so complicated, in the light of the summations that lead us to making decisions. We become deceitful in our efforts to be true to all available pathways of life. Every now and then, if we have our way, we want to be part of everything. Hence, no truer way have we shown solidarity than by averring allegiance with OATH.

There are many parts of us which are divided in sworn oaths to family, religion, society, community, humanity, health and many more. So many oaths that we cannot even count. They make you swear and swear. Under the extreme weight of these oaths and allegiances, we end up compromising, for it is inevitable. So I ask, why the superfluity of sworn oaths when compromise is inevitable???

Take a knight for example, a man of honor enlisted and ranked for the display of these endearing qualities - purity of heart, valor, honor, virtue, integrity and chastity. {S}He comes under oath to the land, the brotherhood, the innocent, the weak ,and most importantly the king. Before the knighthood oath, he owes his parents obedience, his family, his place of origin.

Under all these oaths, can he really play fair and keep everyone happy? What about when there are conflicting demands.?? Wont he forsake the oaths earlier taken? What if his father despises the king? What if the king massacres the innocent? What if the king wants him to behead his father?? What if the Gods want the king removed?? Or the brotherhood wants to revolt and usurp the king?? Moving forward requires breaking oaths to strengthen other oaths.

Then to what end are we humans always demanding oath for allegiances? If compromise is inevitable why the emphasis on allegiance?? Can’t we share fairly and tilt when the circumstances are extenuating?? Sometimes, I think about things like these when my own paths make my oaths challenging.

So before you label my decisions wrong and me an oath-breaker, ask yourself, can we really keep all these oaths???? Because no matter what you do, you’ll forsake one oath or another.

(c) 2019

@KING_KOKO

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