IN PRAYER...

You could teach me how to love all and sundry
How to hate hatred
How to spell lettered war
You could teach me how to be a better man
A better child to my mama
A better lover to those concubines

I would learn
Pin my ears to your lips
I would yearn
For more of your knowledge
I would express and answer your questions

I will be better again
I will love with all I have
I will be meek to those whose oil is milked
And life is in bleak
I will stay from trouble…

I will learn the ways of old
Peace will reign in our hearts
I’ll learn to be true again

Just take up the stick and point…
I will read along….I promise
I want to be a happy baby,
So Ogoni will reckon and hearts like turtledove
Will coo my fears…