Welcome to this home of traffic
where mobile queues of frustrated mind
vent at one another.
To your left and right,
You see red eyes,
The tension can be so high.
Some drivers are like scavengers
looking for space to take over.
As long as they have the skill to maneuver,
They care less if they run a man over.
This home of traffic is not friendly at all,
No brother is keeper, so cast no careless driving ball.
If you do, hate words will reel out like drunk apparition;
“Yeye driver!’’
“Yu no dey see road?’’
“Thunder fire yu!”
“Thunder fire yur generation!”
“Who dash yu moto?!”
Vulgar words will bless you as if preserved in an oral grotto.
This tragic dramatic terrific tale
Dramatic terrific artistic tale
Sounds like magic, the home of traffic
This tragic dramatic terrific tale,
Tells of homes in cars, somewhat sarcastic.
Six hours of congestion is no joke,
Fitted bodies marinated in bad breath makes one choke.
You got be SHARP as a TV,
So keep an eye on your back pockets
Or be a victim of pick pockets
because here, people sit patiently like packed sardines
smoking exhausted fumes and drying out tempers like panla.
By my window screen, a boy waves a roll of gala, Another with a tray of akara.
“Bros, yu no go buy Lacasera?”
This is where our graduates chase vehicles with wares of misplaced dreams.
This is where loose tongue curse wardens,
Bearers of traffic burden.
Six hours from Ikorodu* to Ojodu Berger*,
Where at night, robbers disguise as hawkers and beggars.
So join in lets revive traffic free days
For this dramatic, terrific, artistic tale,
Terrific, artistic, dramatic tale,
Artistic, dramatic, terrific tale,
Artistic, terrific, tragic tale,
Deep like Pacific,
So charismatic,
Artistic in picture,
Dramatic in nature
sounds like magic, the very home of traffic.
N.B. Panla is local name for dried fish. Akara is a baked bean
Ojodu Berger and Ikorodu are places in Lagos state, Nigeria.
Source: Enigmatic Global Concept