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SCHOOL OF LIFE - Olamide Santos
If only I could self-edit life
This would be how my biography would go
I was born to billionaire parents
In a private jet hanging over the Bermuda triangle
Home schooled because my brilliance is beyond class
I find poverty irritating
And religion a drug that gives Hope to those that need it
By the time I'm 19 I'm richer than my parent
So all I do is travel and party
One of my favorite destination is…
Last bus stop Oga. We done reash Ojuelgba
Waking up from my transfixed daydream
Hurriedly, I gathered myself and alighted
Only when the bus had driven off did I remember
My change…
O boy, na to waka reach shitta so?
I reach for my phone and earpiece
Needing music to accompany my exodus
After frisking myself and finding nothing
I declared, 'Oh Lord, it is finished!
Lagos does not discriminate class
Everybody is a student in this school of life
And every student has a story
Those who pass through this school
Are the brilliant ones
And those who don’t will have to learn from those who did
Olamide Santos
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