Skip to content
Words Rhymes & Rhythm

Words Rhymes & Rhythm

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers

Header Advertise
Menu
  • HOME
    • ABOUT US
    • OUR CSR
    • CONTACT US
  • cọ́nscìò
  • FEATURES
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • ESSAYS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • WRITING TIPS
  • POETRY
  • FICTION
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • NEWS
    • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
  • PUBLISHING
    • PUBLISHING PACKAGES
    • 7 REASONS WHY
  • DOWNLOAD
  • Home
  • POETRY
  • N4 MILLION NAP
POETRY

N4 MILLION NAP

Staff WriterApril 1, 2014July 16, 2017

Share

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Read Time:1 Minute, 30 Second

N4 Million Naira Nap
www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [N4 Million Naira Nap]
Look at them!
Retirement is not in their register
Rest is another sad word to them
Dozing off in the duty of healing our nation
Grey hairs fill the seats meant for young hair
In the talking house, they recycle themselves
With different names – many of them are formers
Not many new names!
Not many new voices!

Ah! Grandpa, are you asleep?
I remember nature is around!
Grandpa, you’ve perfectly silenced us
We ought to be you!
Sitting down like you in the talking house
Healing our country!

Ah! I have forgotten
The youths are supposed to shut up:
Thugs, port-folio carriers, with warped psyches
Many are supposed to be dead – like on Immigration Day
Like the vultures hovering in the north

Ah! Grandma
I’m happy to see you there
It is your second time ‘repping’ market women
But, grandma, I came around the other day.
You were at home; No stall, no shop!
Tell me, doe arthritis still allow you move?

I watched you today struggling to stay in one world –
Our world, in the talking house
I can see, you’re having a nice time here
Drifting from one world to another!
That young fish seller, would’ve fared better
If you had given her a chance to be here instead

They’re on a journey for us – so they pronounce
But they’re a curse to the youths – evil they fail to renounce
Take a nap. Grandpa, grandma, do
At the risk of the youth, sojourn on nature’s cue
If that is what you call growth take a nap

It’s just a N4million nap
And God is watching!

Written by: Anajama Chimezie and Ekemini Joseph
Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

About Post Author

Staff Writer

info@wrr.ng
https://wrr.ng/about-us/

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • WhatsApp
  • More
  • Telegram
  • Tumblr
  • Print

Related

Tagged Change, confab, Corruption, Crisis, Nigeria, Poetry, Poverty, revolution, Sad

Post navigation

Previous

Previous post:

BOKO ALARM

Next

Next post:

PATCHED UMBRELLA, SCATTERED BROOM

Previous post BOKO ALARM
Next post PATCHED UMBRELLA, SCATTERED BROOM

Say something about this post Cancel reply

Icon

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘PACESETTERS’ [ISSUE 2, VOL. 2 | OCTOBER 2022]

1 file(s) 10.11 MB
Download
Close
Menu
  • HOME
    • ABOUT US
    • OUR CSR
    • CONTACT US
  • cọ́nscìò
  • FEATURES
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • ESSAYS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • WRITING TIPS
  • POETRY
  • FICTION
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • NEWS
    • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
  • PUBLISHING
    • PUBLISHING PACKAGES
    • 7 REASONS WHY
  • DOWNLOAD
Social profiles
  • HOME
    • ABOUT US
    • OUR CSR
    • CONTACT US
  • cọ́nscìò
  • FEATURES
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • ESSAYS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • WRITING TIPS
  • POETRY
  • FICTION
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • NEWS
    • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
  • PUBLISHING
    • PUBLISHING PACKAGES
    • 7 REASONS WHY
  • DOWNLOAD

ABOUT US

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Ltd. (RC 1234112), is a foremost publishing and educational institution that supports and promotes Nigerian writers and writings talents through several initiatives like contests, prizes, and an annual literary festival. Our publishing susbsidiary is AUTHORPEDIA.

CONTRIBUTE

QUICK LINKS

  • CỌ́NSCÌÒ
  • CONTACT US
  • DOWNLOADS
  • PUBLISHING
  • SUBMIT TO WRR
  • SERVICES
  • HOME
    • ABOUT US
    • OUR CSR
    • CONTACT US
  • cọ́nscìò
  • FEATURES
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • ESSAYS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • WRITING TIPS
  • POETRY
  • FICTION
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • NEWS
    • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
  • PUBLISHING
    • PUBLISHING PACKAGES
    • 7 REASONS WHY
  • DOWNLOAD
Copyright Words Rhymes Rhythm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
 

Loading Comments...