Poems by Nîyô

DEATH!!!💀

I looked around and see people running helter_skelter
Families trying to hold unto each other
Parent trying to protect their children
I didn't know what to do at that moment.
I was devastated, i looked up and said
Oh Lord! 🙏 why is this happening to us?

The warriors of Ijekun land
had arrived to slaughter, to kill
and to burn down all our lands.
Is it a crime to be from Iwora
I thought of what i could do at that moment
And then i saw blood every where
dead bodies everywhere.

The families were no longer together
Children were looking for their parents crying
parents were looking for their children weeping
Since i was only an orphan i wasn't really bothered
Except how i was going to escape
From Iwora land alive.

I started running to the outskirts
of the village with other villagers
I kept on running and running and running
without looking back.
When i was already reaching the outskirts
I decided to look back for the last time.

So i could remember what was left of Iwora,
as i looked back i heard a gunshot
And more people screaming and crying.
Deciding to move on not knowing
that i had been shot.
I felt a sharp pain in my chest
and then i realised i had been shot,
seeing blood everywhere on my chest.
I fell down with tears in my eyes
and i shouted DEATH WHY SO CRUEL.