LAGOS: Africans overseas

Sam madeyin 1991 (Ogun States)



When I become of age wanted to travelled from my village to lives Lagos
Mom once told me by her saying that "money makes in Lagos soon spent in Lagos"
I stanched! But busy entertaining lifestyle amused me greatly though.
So I board a kangaroo 'danfo' bus

Farewell to my family I'm going an African overseas
Home of entertainment and Noblest universes.
Lagoons turned a state a new names for funfair,
Ocean crossed Land's the best
It's indeed a pride and pleasure of the mother west
Took a golden showers from whirpool beside a resident
one I started taking a transporter peas
Village was not a going area for me again

Lagos is as market of the whole wided throughout webs
I saw foreigners among Islanders played together there
they told me from African we all flown ebbs
I still can't believe that it's
Automat natives are there
 saw  many cars upon bridges, bars and iron railed so long from nowhere else.
Airplane streams on clouded above watched them flying like a white thurtle doves.

If you're allergies to noises may be you'd got polluted or die before evening Friday
Because there are hundreds of voices buzzed at a goal
clapper dong by broad daylights
 then on every way
Every music comes to audio play
Busier Lagos I love your spirits
I pray I bring my family too soon.

About this poem

My first special visit to Lagos on Year 2005

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Written on September 12, 2022

Submitted by LiteralErudite on September 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXX BXCDDXBX ECEFCXX XXXGGFX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,285
Words 240
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 7, 7

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