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BIRTHRIGHT - Lolade Oye
On the menu today is our future
Served hot and spicy on a plate of isolated hope
Garnished with historical anecdotes
That associate our greed with gullibility
Like Esau, we screamed, "give me this meal or I die"
Stomach infrastructure you call it
Aye, we respond. After all, our people say:
“ ishapa lei moriki iyan
Bi sango tii mo oriki ina”
Consoling ourselves, we said
What is the use of infrastructure when we die?
And now our offspring are left, infrastructure-less.
Youths, take back your country, they say
But here, in my political base,
Seventy is the new youth
I am told to choose the lesser of two evils
But my rodents’ extermination merchant passed by, chanting
E chop, e no chop, e go die
Aye, I respond, I never had a choice
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