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WHERE ARE THE GODS by Oki Kehinde Julius

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>3 Minute&comma; 26 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p>Appease the gods&comma;<br>&NewLine;Remove from their eye the logs&period;<br>&NewLine;Are they blind to see with this opened eye&comma;<br>&NewLine;That their emperor life are been threatened to die&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Awake the god of iron&comma;<br>&NewLine;To slumber not amidst this risky vulg&period;<br>&NewLine;Suffice it with a beckon clarion&comma;<br>&NewLine;Placate rituals with the blood of dog&period;<br>&NewLine;Assuage our land and make us triumph&comma;<br>&NewLine;If truly Yee are the god of this present vogue&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Ogun bath not with water&comma;<br>&NewLine;We beseach thee to swim in perpetrators blood&period;<br>&NewLine;They’ve projected on our soil a chronic blubber&comma;<br>&NewLine;Tear and wear their flesh like palm frond&period;<br>&NewLine;&comma;<br>&NewLine;Has sango went on an exile&quest;<br>&NewLine;Allowing hazard to enguf our land in its lifetime&period;<br>&NewLine;Has its mystique thunder ceased to valid&comma;<br>&NewLine;When the suicide killers are giving Us a panic&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Thou who strike the cloud with double headed axe&comma;<br>&NewLine;Much like the mythic nordic thorr&period;<br>&NewLine;While banging the drum of war&comma;<br>&NewLine;Hostiles are rolling us on the rhythm of thy storm&period;<br>&NewLine;Lightning of thy thunder struck like fire&comma;<br>&NewLine;Erstwhile when still worshipped like heir&period;<br>&NewLine;What happened&quest; art thou really tired&comma;<br>&NewLine;Of absurding us in this risky trial&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Sango confess to us if truly You’re dead&comma;<br>&NewLine;Boko bombs no longer shiever when thy thunder is heard&period;<br>&NewLine;Death now parades our land with a hearse&comma;<br>&NewLine;Thy loyal tempestuous is solemly dearth&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Insurgence soaked our land with blood&comma;<br>&NewLine;Eyeball springing forth tears like flood&period;<br>&NewLine;Tooth gnashing teeth in agony&comma;<br>&NewLine;Heart ponding fears of disharmony&period;<br>&NewLine;Mass burial becomes a ceremony&comma;<br>&NewLine;Where gods suck blood quenching glory&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Is Obatala still very drunk&comma;<br>&NewLine;To rescue its creature from prickled thorns&period;<br>&NewLine;Prove to the triggers that You’re a slug&comma;<br>&NewLine;Kill them with a fumbling alcoholic finger of wrath&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Remove the cloth covering the Masqurade&comma;<br>&NewLine;Let their magical powers be unveiled&period;<br>&NewLine;The God I know dont put on tattered rags&comma;<br>&NewLine;He dont wear bubu and ankara&period;<br>&NewLine;Tathered rags covers thy face&comma;<br>&NewLine;From seeing those dying in fate&period;<br>&NewLine;Thy hand held firmly the matchet&comma;<br>&NewLine;To murder slayers slippery our legs to death&period;<br>&NewLine;Your leg resemble that of human&comma;<br>&NewLine;Still You claim You’re from sealand&period;<br>&NewLine;They appease thee with a holy water&comma;<br>&NewLine;Thou generously zip till thy leg stargar&period;<br>&NewLine;So we worship a drunkard&comma;<br>&NewLine;Whose reputations equate that of Lagbaja&period;<br>&NewLine;If truly you are god&comma;<br>&NewLine;Why not stop the shedding of innocent blood&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Are the gods sleeping&comma;<br>&NewLine;To hear the bomb blasting&period;<br>&NewLine;Innocent tomb they crave as their bed&comma;<br>&NewLine;Slumbering in wake of this bloody dread&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Where are this gods&comma;<br>&NewLine;Who in their lifetime are warriors&comma;<br>&NewLine;Cant they longer hold sword&comma;<br>&NewLine;To slay and murder our Liquidator&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;Annually they are pacified with ritual of dog&comma;<br>&NewLine;Yet they allow the shedding of blood&period;<br>&NewLine;We give to them&comma;their due appease&comma;<br>&NewLine;Still&comma; they fail to give us our peace&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;The gods are all dead&comma;<br>&NewLine;Chronically they are all deaf&period;<br>&NewLine;Their eyes are blind&comma;<br>&NewLine;They are cruel and unkind&period;<br>&NewLine;The gods are Fraudsters&comma;<br>&NewLine;They are all drunkards&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;We shall go back to our Lord&comma;<br>&NewLine;Only him&comma;is the Supreme GOD&period;<br>&NewLine;On his rock&comma;we shall firmly stand&comma;<br>&NewLine;We shall neglet the gods and their shrine&period;<br>&NewLine;We shall worship him&comma; wholeheartedly with our heart&comma;<br>&NewLine;Only him can stop the tribulation on our earth&period;<br>&NewLine;Osanobuwa is still very living&comma;<br>&NewLine;The gods and goddess are no more existing&period;&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;18849" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-18849" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;WHERE-ARE-THE-GODS-by-Oki-Kehinde-Julius&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-18849" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;WHERE-ARE-THE-GODS-by-Oki-Kehinde-Julius&period;jpg" alt&equals;"WHERE ARE THE GODS by Oki Kehinde Julius" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"492" loading&equals;"lazy"><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-18849" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">WHERE ARE THE GODS by Oki Kehinde Julius<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>PLOT&colon; This piece was inspired by God&comma; from night dream&comma;to ask the people why they are still fetching water inside a perforated basket&comma; that holds not water&period;Why are they still worship the gods&comma; which they call&comma;warrior and yet this gods cannot defeat and make them triumph&comma;over their enemies&period;It ridicles not&comma;a traditional worshippers who choose to serve Olodumare in pure truth and sincerity but to strike a raw nerves on people&comma; who are head over heels in love&comma; worshipping gods&comma;created by Men&period;For if they are not dead&comma;what hell were they looking&comma;when the whole nation&comma;including their shrine&comma;was set ablaze&comma;by the suicide bombers&period;They are all dead&comma;and we should let all this gods&comma;Rest In Peace&excl;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p> <&sol;p>&NewLine; &NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-block booster-author-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-details layout-square align-left">&NewLine; 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