yellow lode

GENESIS

                          Carry me de go🎶🎼🎶
                  Baba carry me de go, de go, de go🎼🎼

As the bus moves slowly, making some disturbing and cracking noise, Lagos is fond of having all these buses painted yellow outside, looking a bit pleasant, but inside the bus looks more like scraps, leaving you to seat on a plain wood  placed on the seats iron frame left with exposed ends, as the bus rides on the bad roads of Lagos, the bone my little fleshed ass is protecting aches badly, but that's not my utmost concern now cause am ambivalent about the journey, and overwhelmed by the new experience coming in

Daddy! Am i scared of change? I asked..

What kind of question is that, he answered as though he was expecting the question this whole time.

(Do I love my dad? Yes! Do we disagree more than we agree and go ahead Futher to keep malice like co-wives when we disagree? Yes, and I know he's the only one that knows me more than I know myself)

I know he should be protective as a father but over-protective is what I will say has generally made me  solitary, and I want to change that, cause I want to be famous, to be able to achieve this, I need to be everybody's friend, and aside that I am seventeen for Gods sake, I deserve the benefit of doubt, I am all grown up...well i don't care if I don't look it, I just want to be like my mates.

Why will you be scared of change, he asked?
As I quickly egress out of my thought,

If you are scared of change that means you are satisfied with your current stage in life and you don't want a progress,

fear fear, he whispered into my ear

Oh! Dad i aint scared oo, e ma na nkucha aburo ujo!

He giggled staring at me softly and said,
What's the " nkucha" for?, he gave a wide smile, akuko i know thats the only idiom you can remember.

Mhmm, "smiles" no i know more o...  I replied giggling as I  lay my head on his shoulder

Couldn't remember when I dozed off, all I could hear is the conductor  shouting at the top of his cramed unrthym voice. Shey LASU gati wa?

Owa oo, my dad replied, he gave me a light tap on my shoulder, ndi akwukwo
wake up, striking lightly on my shoulders again

Oya...  as he stands up and finds his way out of the bus, this how you will leave studying your books and be sleeping in class
na egosi onwegi, am going down but you can continue your sleep.

I wonder why my parent see every single rest i take as an unserious or reluctant behaviour,

On our way to my new lodge, he dust his trousers and bent over to observe my knee, I forgot to mention, I am light-chocolate brown that's if there's any colour of that nature, with brown eyes, some of my family members usually say I have a sick or drunk eyes, slender and about 5'7, and I easily get allergies on my knee especially when sitting for long, well I don't know why I inherited just that from my dad, and my fluffy black soft cotton like hair that's always on all-back corn rows.
Yes i am beautiful, and I know that, but you know I don't let it get to me, wait... Sometimes I do.

Strikes my hair softly and asked, is your knee paining you?

No dad?
Okay, he dragged my box and walked slowly as he puts on his parental advice and investigation face,

You have to respect your self,
E cho, í le onwegi kobo kobo

How na? Why will i do such? dad...

He gave me a quick gaze
Children that did such, i bet this is what they said, but I know you are better,
But you have to open your eyes and be wise like your father, be vigilant like your mother,
He smiled, well she's trying in her vigilante... job, he added

Hahaha i will tell mum for you,
I held his hands as we walk, i definitely know i will miss them and my dad more especially, but I also know there's so much more I will enjoy here.

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Words and meaning...
Nkucha aburo ujo: an Igbo adage meaning "been alert isn't fear"

Akuko: (Igbo)story, disapproval, disbelief, disagree

Ndi akuko: igbo meaning "a story teller" or a gossiper

Ọwa: a yoruba language meaning "available"

Na egosi onwegi: an Igbo language meaning " keep showing your self or keep showing off your bad character"

E Cho,  é le onwe gi kobo kobo: igbo language meaning " If you like sell your self as cheap as kobo or give up your self pride"