"Mujemuje"

They

promised peace,

but

turned beasts.

They

vowed to love,

but stole her heart,

They

raped her innocence

before

her stunned offspring,

They

ate pretence

and

farted syphilitic fumes to her nose,

They

furrowed her body

with

mucus of their

choked cavities,

Their

lust has betrayed

her

trust.

Her

stunted hope weeps

in

their hearts of darkness.

Ogun,

never spare them rest

for

they’ve injured her conscience,

Sango,

to strike them

a

million times

will not be enough

for

their crimes.

This

Is why we

invoke

the gods to

arrest Mujemuje

in our

midst.
Emmanuel Adeniyi

Akungba (2002)

Footnote: Mujemuje (blood suckers), Ogun (Yoruba god of iron), Sango (Yoruba god of thunder)