Traveling companions and compatriots

(I wrote this poem because of what I recently experienced when I traveled to the South Western part of Nigeria. I mean, it was as noisy as a market place all through the journey . Talk and more talk till I got angry, got tired of being angry and then decided to write a Poem in the midst of the “market”).

Come along with me on this journey.

Companions and compatriots on an expedition

Roaring and trumpeting as they transited

Engaged in a shouting tournament for the clueless

Not knowing that having an opinion doesn’t translate to having wisdom.

Ovyay

So I remained in tortuous silence

Whilst seated next to an unabating windy storm

Whose preoccupation was spitting out a mixed grill of the savory and the unpalatable

That ended up leaving the confused more befuddled.

Ovyay

Out of the moving contraption, I teleported

Went outdoors though situated within doors.

Home in the midst of the greenery and rusticness

The diarrhea of utterances, now a distant inconvenience.

Ovyay

The rabble-rouser can’t make peace

The peacemaker can’t ordain war

Silent noise is better than disharmonious verbiage

I’d rather listen to neighing horses and bleating sheep.

Ovyay

Rhythmic unpleasantness, the rhetorics of verbal gladiators in full display

My aching ear, the casualty

Quietude is an anathema when the rabble marches

I am sitting in the wilderness of nothing hoping to learn something.

Ovyay

Finally, a messiah surfaced

Displaying the authority of boots, uniforms, and guns

Park this automobile he ordered

Unthinkable silence at last

My aching ear and banging head can now convalesce in peacefulness.

SELAH.

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