JANUS SEMANTICS

"Iranian proxies
Iran backed"
Iran is being demonized
In the eyes of the blind world

The free world is yet to hear
"US-backed Israel
UK-backed Israel
NATO-backed Israel"

In this new world of truth
Where we no longer await
The mainstream media's dictates
The old narratives are dead

The world now, knows the truth

March 22, 2024

HEROES AND LOSERS

 A wild beast is on rampage
Shedding blood with impunity
Supported by the great Satan
Approved by heartless monarchs

While the people around the world protest
Calling an end to this century's grand genocide
Weak world leaders have put their heads in the sand
Pretending to care and worship the aggressor

Behold the onlookers of this world
You are on the wrong side of human history
The free world will not forget your indifference
Freedom and democracy are not for you to define

The global top heroes are resisting the oppression
The aggressors are shamed by their beastly instinct
They have lost the war and the battle for humanity
They remain losers and accursed by God.

March 14, 2024

NETANBIDEN

Netanbiden and Bidenyahu
Are a scourge on the face of the earth
Soaked in the blood of children
Whose only fault is that they live in Gaza
The world is watching genocide helplessly

When an empire is falling, its colour turns red
The tables turn, and nothing can stop it
When that happens, we will remember Gaza
Those who kill by the sword shall die by one
It is just a matter of time, the colonial ship is sinking.

 

November 10, 2023

I STAND WITH ISRAEL

Every coward in the West
Stands with the State of Israel
Unequivocally announced to the world
Because of the irrepressible fear of Zionist
While they carry their burden of guilt

The West wishes to atone for its sins
With the blood of innocent children
Appeasing the Jews for the Holocaust
Still ensuring they remain far away from them
Because of their ultimate fear of them

‘If you stand with Israel, give them part of
your land, host them’ So said the wise.

18/10/2022

 

FEAR NOT LOVE

They hate them so much
They are afraid of them too
They feel safer without them on their land

To keep them at bay at all costs
To ensure they remain at bay
They created a so-called promised land

When they say they stand with them
It is always out of hate and fear
Not out of genuine love or concern

Making efforts to be and feel safe
From the evil they have witnessed
From this group of ungrateful brats

When they say they stand with them
Know that, it is out of fear, not love
They will never give them an inch of their land.  

October 19, 2023

THE WORLD KNOWS

Now that the world knows
The crocodile tears no longer work
The propaganda and deception
Now hits the wall and bounces back
It has lost its potency to stir emotion
They have lost the media war too
The world stands with the oppressed
The world knows the truth.

 October 19, 2023

DON'T START WHAT YOU CAN'T FINISH

The brutal show of paganism
Driven by calamitous hypocrisy
In a supposedly civilized den
Exposes the fallacy of the West
What a disgrace to human sensibility
A tragedy of the so-called developed

Don’t start what you can’t finish
The Qur’an is sacred and holy
Burning it will not erase it
Hundreds of Millions read it every day
Millions preserve it in their hearts
Loudly it will be recited, in Sweden and beyond         

 July 7, 2023 (2:50pm)

ASUU IS AN IDEA

The struggle has come this far
We must not retreat an inch
Be steadfast
Be strong
Be resilient

Knowledge dispels fear
So said the chair
When fighting a bandit
Behave like one, said a Sociologist
Be the last bastion against tyranny

The struggle is existential
It is either success or doom
We either fight on or perish
A senseless and clueless government
Need a place on the ground

ASUU is an idea
It can’t be banned.

August 22, 2022

I AM A LECTURER

I am a lecturer and I am not ashamed
I am on strike to ensure my existence
the existence of a sane and great society
a society that is rational and productive

The future of my nation is at stake
some oppressors have taken over its soul
they’ve turned my country into a milk cow
squandered its resources and embezzled its riches

The nation has become so docile and submissive
shrouded in sold ethnic and religious bigotry
every sector has been destroyed without remorse
the leaders are not concerned about our fate

I am on strike and I am not ashamed
called names by the people whom I’m fighting for
I have been punished by hunger and poverty
I promise I will not go down nor give up

I am entitled to a good salary
I am entitled to good working conditions
I am entitled to be respected by all
I am not ashamed to fight for these rights

I chose to join this noble profession
I choose to stay and make a difference
I choose not to run away even with options
I am a lecturer and I am not ashamed

Let all Nigerians know
let the irresponsible government note
we have not come this far to abandon the battle
we will remain the last bastion against tyranny.

 July 1, 2022

 

I AM SORRY

 After Stan’s Apologies

 

It is our inner “beingness”
That made us that different
It is an invisible but real strength
To say I am sorry is short and soft
The weak will never be able to say it
Those of us who apologize
Present the homo sapiens in us
Those who are too weak and ego-ridden
Whose tongue cannot apologize

Present our evolutionary origins with the beasts.

 
April 11, 2022

YES MR. PRESIDENT, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Yes Mr. President, Enough is enough 
Because you don’t seem to be yourself
A total stranger to Nigerians who voted for you
Not the man we thought will deliver the nation
Enough is enough, Mr. President
Because your favourite ASUU is black painted
You don’t seem to know what is going on
Mr. President, we are the same ASUU of pre-2015
We are those patriots who care for this nation
We are still the light of the nation
We are not the agents of darkness.

Yes, Mr President, enough is enough
Enough is enough because it is enough
It is enough because we too are tired
Tired of always closing our classrooms
Just to remind the government of its job
Tired of making sacrifices for the nation
Tired of being accused and abused 
Tired of being punished for saving education
Tired of being starved for insisting on truth
Tired of being disgraced by governments
Tired of insisting on saving Nigerian universities

Mr President, enough is enough
Because we have not come this far to give up
If you want students to go back to school
Be informed on how far we have come so far
Get the facts, the truth and the reality
Come back to the world Nigerians are living in
Mr President, be yourself, the real you
We know who you were and what that meant
When you become you, strikes will be history
We look forward to meeting people’s president.
The one we voted for in 2015, Yes, Mr President

 July 12, 2022  

IF THERE WILL BE FREEDOM AND RIGHTS AT ALL…

 For Idrissa Gueye

Freedom is often invoked
so also human rights
when the monsters wish to bully
the rest of the world.

Freedom to choose
right to be oneself
are always a convenient card
to intimidate the world

The shameless mouthful powers are
trying to usurp humanity’s right to be
we must accept their right to be them
but we can’t be us until it suits them

None should have endless freedom and rights
where other’s rights and freedom are denied
if there will be freedom and rights at all
let everyone be free to be and right to express it

May 28, 2022

10:51 am
  

LET EUROPE FIGHT ITS WARS

Futures of humans destroyed
ocean of blood shed
fortunes lost
hearts broken forever
fighting European wars

When Europe fights
it takes the world with it
the World has fought European wars
all the so-called World Wars
are in fact, European Wars

Let Europe fight its wars
Let the World live in peace.

(Inspired in a dream, 6/4/2022)

I WOULD RATHER GO WITH THE BEAR

The howling of the wolves
the vulgar laughter of the hyenas
beating the drum of bloodshed
coercing the world into a conflict
they created by their arrogance

Why must their enemy be ours?
Mandela taught us to love
those who stand with us in pain
let everyone mind his business
I would rather go with the Bear

(Inspired in a dream, 6/4/2022)

THE WORLD IS TIRED

Accounting for less than one-fifth of the world
Very small in population and landmass wise
Always calling themselves International Community

They dictate to the majority with rude arrogance
They set moral standards that they never have
Flooding the world with their media organs

Labelling and accusing other nations of crimes
They show the world how to commit
Using the garb of freedom and democracy  

They use the human-right card every instance
To interfere in other countries' internal affairs
Abusing the same rights they preach to protect

They abuse the freedom of people to be free
Invading and toppling governments around the world
The Middle East, Latin America and Asia still bleed

Their double face, shameless brutality has no bounds
The world has now understood the trick
Hold your human-rights card oh the West

Let’s every nation define its human-rights
Let’s every nation define its freedom and protect it.
The world is tired.

March 26, 2022

 

 

ZELENSKY

 Years of acting on stage
Makes the world a comedy
Life itself is a comedy

When the lives of millions
Are under your watch 
Do not poke the Russian Bear

March 18, 2022

WOMEN

Women are us

As we are them

They are from our ribs

We come from the wombs

God said we live together

In love and with patience.

SOCIAL MEDIA

 A global market square

Of unlikely room mates 

A place where private life

Is willingly exposed.

May 28, 2020

Contents

 

My new poetry collection just released (October, 2021)

 

HOW MUCH BLOOD IS ENOUGH?

The land in the Northwest is fragile
Its people swimming in ignorance
Willingly pauperized by its leaders
Hated by others for being extremely poor
In a land of great abundance and vast land
With thousands of prospects unattended to

Each zone has its battle and is fighting
Ours is almost a lost battle, we are doomed
Who stands and speaks for us today?
So many big names, big people doing nothing
So many great minds, intellectuals still struggling
A huge population left at the mercy of bandits

We have been reduced to a zone under unceasing threats
Bandits on motorbikes carrying AK 47 rifles
Raid and ransack our villages and rape our girls
Kidnap poor people for an impossible ransom
DOING IT at will whenever it suits them
Because nobody stands for us, we are sacrificed

What are our sins in this country, I ask?
How much blood is enough to atone our sins?
From the killing fields of Zamfara to Birnin Gwari
From the murderous spots of Southern Kaduna, Katsina to Sokoto
Innocent people already pauperized are being massacred
Their blood means nothing to those who lead

What are those political office holders in Abuja doing?
What are they doing in our Government Houses and Assemblies?
What are traditional and religious leaders doing?
What are our activists and human right fighters doing?
What are you doing to change the status quo?

So much blood has been shed and still being shed
As if the lives of our people mean nothing to us all
No life is better or more precious than another life
Nobody will fight for you and me, be sure of that
Nobody will do anything about this wanton destruction
We have to stand for us and speak for us.

Demand that those who hold political offices to act
Demand that the security outfits do their job of protection
Demand the religious and traditional leaders to act
Demand social media warriors to shout at the top of their voices
You, whatever position you hold, do your own bit,
 Start NOW.

June 11, 2020
 ©

GEORGE FLOYD

Don't talk to me about

Freedom and democracy anymore. 

The body of George Floyd

Has said it all.

May 31, 2020

CORONA VIRUS

Science and virus at the crossroads
Despite man’s technological height
In spite of the economic might
Human’s superiority is questioned
In the face of the rise of the microbe

I have never seen humans so scared
An organism so petite, our eyes cannot see
Yet so humbling, it has made mankind
Like the black death of the medieval past

Life is threatened by this frightening virus
Humans are surely not folding their arms
We are fighting back with all it takes

Our existence on Earth is not negotiable
We will not succumb to corona’s wickedness
We shall outlive the outbreak and contain it.
So, help us God!

March 1, 2020 (12:56am)

THE BLACK OWL

Blue sky appears reddish at sunset
Milk powder crooks dark when burnt
When an emperor is encircled by schemers
All is lost without notice or warning
Ignorance chops away wisdom and wit
It breeds arrogance and blinds the heart
What a pity, a city and its people doomed
Its emperor is acting wild dog, barking loud
Now a wounded lion roaring with indignation
I saw him climbing to the tree top like a monkey
The black Owl is skyward, soaring in the air
One of its wings has broken…
It did not notice it!

© Yusuf M. Adamu, 2019 (8:34pm. Dec. 10)

KANO CITY WALL

What is Kano without its city walls?

Built centuries ago with a sense of grace

It is our identity and cultural achievement

So imposing, intimidating, a grand monument

It is our pride and collective memory

Today, a gray shadow of its grandeur

Kano is naked, without its city wall
So are all of us.

August 6, 2019

WHO WILL STAND FOR US?

 

Our future is being traded by those that be

Our teachers, under someone’s instructions

Told us that the governor is being slandered

That he was shown on a video collecting bribe

So people will think he is corrupt, though a good man

What is bribe and what is corruption? We do not know

They preach to us and coerce us to carry placards

They wrote what they want, we can barely read what they wrote

We have no idea of the implications of our actions

Our parents are poor, we have little choice

We are children, we attend a public school

If we had a choice, we would be in private schools

Because public schools are ignored by the government

Public schools are dilapidated and congested

There are neither chairs nor tables in the classrooms

The ceilings are damaged and the floor is bare

We have no textbooks and our uniforms are tattered

We know, we can’t compete with our mates in private schools

Not because they are more intelligent than us here

But because the government is not concerned about our future

Where are the lawyers and human right activists?

Where are the Ulama and elders of the town?

Where are journalists who dare speak the truth?

Where is the Ministry of Education and SUBEB?

Where are the representatives in the State House of Assembly

Where are the politicians in the opposition?

Our writers, what has happened to your pens?

Who will stand for us?

Someone should fight on our behalf

We need sound education like all children

We want to grow up as educated and responsible citizens

We want contribute to nation building like other children

But we can’t be anything worthy if our schools are bad

We may end up as thugs of these politicians who

Today are trading our future to protect theirs.

Who will stand for us?

October 27, 2018

STANDING ALONE

There it is standing, looking lonely yet imposing

From one perspective, it appears majestic

Getting all the private space it needs

No competition but only shrubs at its mercy

From another perspective, it looks depressing

Left all alone by its self, devoid of friends and relatives

No one to talk to or share laughter and joy

As if abandoned by all other trees of its kind

But who could tell this big Baobab’s point of view

I wish, I were a tree to ask this big sister how it feels

To be left alone on a wide landscape like this

I can l only imagine what it meant to her.

TRUMPMANIA

A lion will always be a lion and nothing more or less

Lions are territorial because they are afraid to be challenged
In an open savanna every animal compete for best niche
But not in a country built and developed by migrants of all kind
That offer succor to those persecuted and those in need

We begged the world to let Trump be because he was elected

As democrats, we follow the majority even when we disagree
But the world should have nothing to fear from this wild one
He is now in the phase of voicing out and acting practical
But gradually learning what is possible and what is not

Some countries were banned from entering the God’s own country

They are carefully excluded because they are Muslim and assumed violent
Every good Muslim knows that the faithful shall inherit the Earth
And that the Earth is big, vast, abundant and belongs to mankind
So, allow them to close their gates, turn to God for succor and help

After all is said and done, the truth shall triumph over falsehood

No country is an island in this globalised world of amazing intrigues
Whatever happens in life before death, life will have to go on anyway
So be patient, oh those who were banned from entering the US of A
Let’s see how democracy can address this madness called Trumpmania!

TRUMP'S TRIUMPH

Against all odds and brutal opposition

The Lion has won the American election

What a great shock to the liberals and establishment

Trump was demonized by the mainstream media

People hated Trump for his unguarded utterances

Many say he will be a disaster to World peace

Trump said again and again and again
To him America is first, second and third

If he meant what he said, that’s great for the world

His supporter’s said he will make America Great Again

Whatever happens or will happen on the US streets

Trump has won US election, he is America’s choice

This great democracy should be democratic

And respect majority American’s choice!

Let Trump be!

November 14, 2016

EVERLASTING LOVE

You should know that your love in my heart is immortal

Your love shall remain until the pyramids turn into dust

Neither wind or heavy rain, nor the rising and setting sun

Can make the love I have for you ever go away anytime

This is a promise I made to myself, to you and to God

In this life on earth and in the afterlife and beyond that.

 

June 16, 201  

CELL PHONE

At the airport departure lounge
Tens and tens of passengers waiting
The old and the young passengers
The male and the female waiting
Some busy talking to their company
Some calling for God knows how long
Many, immersed in their What’s apps and face books
Two big thumps kept active right and left
Punching key points, scrolling the screen
Busy sending or replying messages
Their two hands doing all the punching
See how the cell-phone get people clued
Cell-phones and our fingers bonded for life

16-08-2015 @ NAI Airport Abuja 12:04 noon

WE CROSSED THE BORDER

When they stopped us at the border
They could only stop our physical frames
But they cannot stop our imaginations from crossing
On the wings of imagination, we flew across the border
We landed in Adare and trekked its streets
We met its beautiful people and inhaled its fragrance
We were at the border, we crossed the border
For no immigration hullabaloo could ever stop us
We are now good to go, to go back home
For us, it is a mission accomplished!

27/08/2015

Nigeria-Niger border, Maigatari)

Who is in charge?

The world's greatest power and democracy
Is today under the grip of a horrendous spell
The emperor and the empire are in trouble

One wonders who is in charge in the empire
The venomous snake whose Trojan horse is active
Or the emperor whose silence is yet to be understood?

What happens to Caesar when the senate's loyalty is elsewhere?
For the greatest democracy in the world,
The tragedy is great and monstrous

The empire is under a poisonous spell
It needs true citizens to break this damning spell
Loyal citizens to whom the empire is first, second and third

Citizen who will save the empire and the world
Not those whose loyalty lies somewhere else
God bless the empire!

February 2, 2015

MUHAMMAD

 

Muhammad is the benefactor of mankind

He is like the Sun that never fails to rise

He is like the Stars adorning the night sky

He is like the air we breathe and the water we drink

Let the ignorant and the arrogant indulge in their cowardice

Muhammad is our Earth, our Universe and our Life

We will always love, adore, respect, value him without END!

 

January 14, 2015