WONDERING THOUGHTS

 

 

I WONDER

WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE

IF ANTS RULED THE WORLD

AND ELEPHANTS THEIR SERVANTS

I WONDER

WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE

A WORLD WHERE ALL MEN HAD EYES

ATTACHED TO THEIR ANUSES

AND HAD TO WALK WITH HEADS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS

IF MAN HAD TO FACE THE SKY

WITH OPEN MOUTH DURING RAINFALL

ONLY TO HAVE A DRINK OF WATER

I KEEP WONDERING

WOULD IT BE BIZARRE?

OR SEEN AS PURELY NORMAL?

IF MEN BLEATED AND GOATS SPOKE

WOULD YOU BE ALARMED IN A WORLD LIKE THIS?

OR WOULD IT BE AS NORMAL AS NORMAL COULD BE?

I WONDER

I JUST WONDER

WRITTEN BY KAYODE SHOPEKAN

GRAVE MISTAKE

 

Basking in the euphoria

Of what I had done

That cannot be undone,

I wait for the glorious hour

When I swallow the bitter pill of justice

Knowing not my doomsday

I run helter skelter

Not relishing my pranks

Nor savoring her consequences

Whatever you do remember, I’m not at fault

Suppose the breeze had not revealed it.

Only that I was not vigilant enough.

Swaying to and fro

I ought to have known.

That beautifully arrayed,

And spreading forth like a peacock,

Was the enchantress,

Meant to enchant me.

Gullibly I left my senses

And strode, straight way into the web.

Never at that point

Have I seen a logical Adam

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,

So they say

Even lust resides in the eyes of the beholder

My Bath-Sheba lieth in wait for me

As Potiphar's wife did

Like Joseph, I ought to flee

But like David, I went in unto her

Yes, I must be banished, punished, rejected, excommunicated

Or even hanged and killed

Yet the truth must not be revealed

That I ever lusted,

Or went in unto her

That I am supposed to preserve