POEM: Songs of a Naija Man by Ade A. Ajakaiye

1. When I heard about the war boiling between Israel and Iran

In truth, O my God! For my dear life, fast I ran

 

1. Their ballistic missiles, dreadful drones and sundry weapons

Trillion times more dangerous than the eagle’s tallons

 

1. Israel’s Iron Dome catch-all defence

It’s blistering war machines

 

1. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and religion-powered soldiers

Her citizens, faithfully loyal, and die-hard sisters and brothers

 

1. Government and society fully robed in Theocracy

Laws, customs and traditions, wholly dressed in Theology

 

1. All added up to dread and trepidation

For the world’s fearful population

 

1. And then Trump came, unveiling his bunker bursters

That shattered Iran’s mountain-hidden nuclear bunkers

 

1. Bibi’s hands firmly held Iran by the neck

Waiting for Trump’s iron-hands to make it a wreck

 

1. I stopped running then, and started thanking Almighty God

Knowing that Armageddon this time, will not come from Iran’s angry god