Watchman How is the Night?
Darkness covers the land; dawn is not in sight;
Gloom resonates with the night,
All cannot tell what will be their plight
Even the watchman is afraid of the night
Ghosts are the terrors of the night
Flee are the children of the light;
Bad company corrupts good manner
Prefer them to walk in daylight
And not be afflicted by terror of night
Elections conducted in daylight;
Winner announced in broad daylight;
Names swapped in the night;
Doing what they know how to do best;
The ghosts of the night;
Rigging is best in the night
Ghommmid and ghosts are traders of the night
Dew falls not in the night
Egbere (Gnome) weeping throughout the night,
He cannot fathom what beheld his sight;
Even his famous miserable mat want they, to make more money.
Sleeping are the watchers of the night
Their bank account are no longer light;
Plenty money in their bank vault
As long as they away keep their sight;
Keeping watch is troublesome
Ghommids are so many in the night;
Ghosts and Ghommids dont work in daylight
Demons arrived in the night;
Ghosts and Ghommids no longer safe in the night;
Changing are order of the night;
Sleep well jare my watchers of night;
Watchers are safe they thought.
Who is afraid of the night demons,
Deep forest is their habitation;
Cattles and guns, scares the Ghosts and the Ghommids;
Power pass power even in the night
Darker and darker is the night;
Tributes and Royalty are demands of the demons of the night
Mammons are the language of ghosts and ghommids of the night;
Part not with your illicit mammon to the demons of the night
For in them you have delight;
Fight Demons you can’t, even with your aeolight;
Both day and night no peace;
Scary to you now is antitwilight
Lost for you is the control of the night.
Watchman, how is the night?
The night comes and goes;
Fear continue, storms and clouds, the night inhabit;
Ghosts, Ghommids and Demons much for the night
But your days of slumbering are so lengthy;
Rouse from your slumber;
So that you can rightly bedight.
Niyi Aborisade is a legal luminary, a human rights activist, a writer and a poet
