Life is barter you get when you cater
Exchanging something for something is life
When you have life get something and master
Because what you master is your tool in life
You can learn something faster,
Than you thought in life
You can learn polishing a counter
And making things with pipes
Good life is life bad life is disaster
Learn something and master even making knife
With tools you can cater with knives you slaughter
Good service to a master can guarantee good life
But then who is a master bona-fide ones cater
When scoundrels are master they squander your life
good masters are human they feel and they cater
bad masters are erratic and impossible for life
To live normal life get scales and adaptors
You learn what is right you adapt and you knife
And surrender your rights to reach the rights of others
You promote their lives they spend for your life
When you have something lock it safe in a counter
Exchange it for something that appeals to your life
Don't give in to the vandals who plunder and slaughter
Too much thought of others can devastate your life
Don't give when in doubt that others will cater
You give and you service to a considerate life
When a one is self-centered make your self a deserter
You deserve your rights and a harmonious life
Abdulkadir Babajo
EDITOR’S NOTE
Originally published in Citizen on 21 Oct 1990, p. 41. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation visible in the archived page.