YORUBA:
AYE NIYEN
Aye ni mo ti n ri yen
Aye ti mo fe ri
Aye t'oju ti ri
Aye t'eti ti gbo
Oun t'ari t'ani wi
Oun t'ari t'awi
Oun t'ari bi ooyi
Ati oun t'ari t'agbodo so
Mo gbo, mo ro
Mo tara iriri
Mo rin l'ojo ajo
Ile tuntun ti o funfun
O wa ku ibi t'ati ri imole lasan
O ku ibi ti okunkun okan ko ka
Emi araye dudu jojo
A se fe se aye si
Oro ajoso wa di ti odale
Nkan ajose wa di ere owo
Awon baba nla wa mo gbadun ooo
Laye ti odale ti n bale ku
Laye ti eke ti n pa eru
Ti epe ti n pa ole
Ti odale ti n pa ore
Bi o ba lo bamire, eru re bami
Ki amu ile aye ko le ju bayi lo
Omi ti eda yio mu ko ni san koja eda
Omo Onawola!!!
Ati ara ti o wo ye irin ajo omo Adamo
Aye le n ri yen ooo
ENGLISH:
THAT IS LIFE
It is the life that i'm seeing now
The life that i want to see
The life that the eyes have seen
The life that the ears have heard
What we have seen and have to say
What we have seen and said
What we have seen that turned our eyes (in dizziness)
And what we have seen but must not alter
I heard, I thought
I worried about experience
I walked on the day of journey
The new land that is white
Ehere are we going to find pure light?
where did the darkness of mind not cover
The mind of humans, now so dark
hHow are we going to live life
Concessions reached, now betrayed
Joint tasks became games
The early me really enjoyed
When traitors died of betrayal
When hypocrisy killed slaves
When curse killed thieves
When betrayal killed deceitful friends
If you say you are close to me, i'm afraid of you
If we take things more serious
The water an individual will drink shall not flow beyond him
The descendant of Onadiran!!!
And others that have seen the journey of the human race
It is life that you all are seeing
PHOTOCOPY
History is the duplicate of destiny
The direction of humanity
The bearer and the subject
Makes it look like lateral inversion
Of the mirror image from the side
Written in the unspoken language
In ink of selective visibility
Those that saw it thus couldn't read it
Those that read, couldn't translate it
We all know it exists
But the content remains mystery
But for history
We write in our tongue all mystery
We can't still define some things
But how comes that had been written
Nobody could say a thing about the book
We know not what, why, where or when of it
But we would do it to ourself
Write history to duplicate the book of fate
CASUALTY
I know everything that happened
Mysterious enough
I don't know what I did
Subject became victim
It was a mystery indeed
What I protected I can't say
I only knew I had to heed
The creator be my witness
I never meant like this
My will didn't surface
It makes my heart to bleed
This is exam period
I just had to proceed
A lot really went up
I shall drop them in the right box
I didn't play, I wasn't in the box
All over me like a pox
What soap to bath the guilt
But of the thing that i can't control
TROUBLED SEARCHER
The saying of my people
Reality that lasts
Till the end of time
They said
"Long life or no worries, you have to choose one"
See what man made himself
What we craeted with our hands
Are the reasons we are lost
The cause of the move without direction
"O pe laye, oju re koni ribi, okan ni o fowomu"
One mystery that is immortal
Is that all the worries
All the questions
All the pain
And the gain so far
Did not bring out from darkness
The definition of life
Even the shortest life is troubled
But it never made a difference
"Eni waye ko raye, eni raye ko damo"
He who looks for life doesn't see it, he who sees it doesn't recognize it
Despite all the troubles
For the short and long lives
No one ever found it
THE BEING
Created by God
Made by Mummy
Tamed by blood
Sweat to sweet
Living by the fluid
All by the day
The smile of Mama
The blessing
The frown of Papa
The training
Both seen
The alteration of the street
The game
Origin, the source
Of everything and power
Just everything
Forward position
Glory of the game
BLESS ME NOW
All the things so wished for
A palace and a mobile mansion
Cool this and hot that
Shall be possessed with believe
But when
The prayer to the almighty
For the want to be personality
And all of the above
The road to being smooth
Royal and shining
The ups to be lowered
The downs to be raised
Levelled platform for the journey
Before the time we wait for
In addition
Bless me now
DON'T GO
Malo (don't go)
Malo (don't go)
Cast away, I was
On my knees, I cried
I changed, I was good
My destiny, I had to protect
Foolish goddess ever cared
A wise god, mybe he is
The temperament dropped
Don't go
My friend, leave me not
Now I realize
I had an impetuous one
Mama moooooooo
For the last time
Sorry I didn't tell you
LIFE DRAMA
Too much comedies
Countless tragedies
Tragecomdies and cometragedies
And what have we
In where have we
Genres of life drama
Not only of the play
The one you read and watch
In this case, everyone is a lead character
But not every one is aware of the story line
The location is the largest possible
The real universe in entirety
The duration is forever
It started from a time unknown
To end sometimes later
The actors were there yesterday
They find themselves here today
And would be somewhere tomorrow
Funny motions and sad moments
Every type of every scene and every being
The coverage is supernatural
The primary director, the cause of the actions
Remains as vague as the contents of destiny
Actors set destinations
But the director's will is not always in line
And the route to the target is sometimes off track
Might even be opposite in direction
The point of landing
Duration of journey
And time of arrival
Factors pulling the trigger
I wish to narrate also the end of the living drama
But it is an acute tragedy
In which all actors shall end in the show on set
DREAMER GIRL
She lives in a world not near
She is always happy, smiling and dancing
The only reason Earth is unsafe for her
You might think she is an alien
She is just like you and me
Very real like all the things
From where she does live
She still smiles on the race
That the little children may come out to play
The life of a galaxy
Queried size
Oh you beautiful lady of the moon
You did't hear of her
But severally, i a state or so
You and even you
Must have seen the dreamer girl
WHAT OF PEACE?
What have we learnt?
What have we seen?
Now that horror persists as terror
What have we done?
What have we made?
Into how many distinctions have we splitted Mankind?
How have we fared?
Where have we been?
How far from the early men have we taken the race?
What can we do?
How can we move?
How will mother Earth look human?
What happened?
What is happening?
What will happen?
When we make peace a synonym of culture
When we join hands to fight that horror of terror
Scrutinize the other things
We are there and proceeding
Compiled: Dauda Onawola
