NAKUMBO’S PAEAN

NAKUMBO’S PAEAN

The road to the realm is really rough

It blistered my bare feet and I go bald

But soothed away’s all the pain by the sound

Of the yell of delight: ayyyyyyy ririri!

Proving to people that Princess Edlash

Will be my one and only wife

On Monday this month of my blissful year.

Birds will rejoice and sing: siiiiiii sis sis si siiiiiiiii!

As my crummy legs will dance ta ta tataf taf!

INSIDE OUT

INSIDE OUT

Awake I am but behave as in trance

Humility to me is self importance

My braveness became high and tough

Though it ought to, I know its show off

Those around me crowned me and hail me

Not for being straight but cunning

My stupid bald in wig I tucked and toupee

As I padlocked the truth and melt down the key

Hence, to me khaki is see through

All false I call them nothing but true

Seldom have I sent away shameful bribe

I often take it as gift; O my tribe!

Great men’s history’s kept by archives

Of truth and honesty of their lives

For that, in good faith I should do

-If God spare my life- all I have to

BACK TO FRONT

BACK TO FRONT
(The state of Bahaushe)

Yesterday you’re a king
Today an urchin
Yesterday, kingdom you owned and slaves
Today nothing but humiliation
Yesterday your dignity scudded like cloud
Today is trampled heavily down
Yesterday your words were so expensive
Today’re marked down like an old shirt
Yesterday you are praised and loved
Today you receive hate like devil
Yesterday your wife’s preserved like pearls
Today so exposed like a street light
Yesterday you ascend over them all
Today you descend like a water fall
Yesterday my tribe is different from yours
Today Nigerians merge the tribes together
I am Fulani you are the other
You know yourself please take correction
By returning to your good etiquette
Of yesterday O! My Bahaushe