Violence Against Women

From inner room to

open field,
from kitchen countertop
to office desk,
her travails remain the same.

Everyday she tells stories
that draws tears from hearers’
eyes,
unceasingly, stories that elicit
sympathy-she relates to her
listeners;
beyond description account
on inhuman treatment never
run out from her mouth.

Unending pains and sorrows
from society created and
sustained evil-
violence against women-
dossier she keeps;
her take home is violence,
her companion is aggression and
sadism.

Every direction she turns

violence envelops her,
every community-she resides-
cruelty and savagery-
gifts she receives.


Everywhere she lives-
conservative, liberal, strictly and
non-religious, close, open,
traditional or dotcom society,
she lives, grows, and dies in
violence.

At home-punching bag-
she has become in the
hand of uncultured man,
sex-satisfying-object-
she is before a
libido-controlled-stallion.

Rape she suffers continually
from abusers-mostly known-
incest-her captor-subject her
upon,
just as society blames and
condemns her for the evils
that befall her.

Violence against her has no

limit,
violence against her has no
border,
insofar she is biologically
identified as a woman and
distinctively feminine,
pre-birth-infancy-girlhood-
adolescence-and-elderly,
cycle of society prepared
abuse, she undergoes.

Physically-she is tortured,

sexually-she is assaulted,
molested, and violated,
emotionally a she is injured
and damaged,
economically-she is denied
empowerment, made a pauper
to be dependent on
man in perpetuity.

Unfriendly custom and practices-
honor killing, dowry violence,
mob violence are her share
and inheritance;
unpleasant-yes-
disadvantageous position
such as pre-natal sex selection
abortion, female infanticide-
she finds herself in most
societies of homo sapiens.

Her biologically configuration
mankind keeps exploiting for
economic gains,
her sexuality-good for nothing-
son-of-Adam turns to
automated teller machine.

Her womanhood,
nature-created-honorable
tool-of-pleasure-and-procreation
mankind has turned immoral,
desecrated, and profaned;
her rights-inalienable and
constitutionally grantee,
continuously come under  
attack by hostage takers,
forced  displacement,
systemic rapists, sex slave

owners, and forced pregnancy

agents.

Will all men and women of
goodwill around the globe
keep quiet for these evils to
continue?
How long will our daughters,
wives, sisters, nieces, mothers
be viewed from binocular lens
different from their males
counterparts?

This is the time to
Declare War on
Violence against Women;
Let “Peace on earth
and good will to men”
applies to Women.

Nigeria-I  Weep For You

Weep not for Jonathan,

but weep for Nigeria,

rejoice not much over

2015 presidential elections,

never be carried away by

events of moment;

delude yourself not

by epithet “change,”

rather envision-

what Nigeria of tomorrow

SHALL BE.

Weep not over Jonathan’s

failure to secure-

another four-year-tenancy-

at-Aso-Rock,

weep for the goose-Nigeria-

that lays the golden egg;

mourn the river that gives

everyone water to drink,

wail over the cow,

whose milk everyone feeds on.

Ululate over the woman-

whose breasts every Nigerian

suck-

that may soon be abused;

screech for the re-emergence

of cobweb that slows

Nigeria’s fifty-something

years of greatness and 
development down.

Squawk for return of nepotism,

whimper-yes-whine over

tribal cleavages,

howl over religious bigotry,

yowl over political arm twisting;

yelp for return of born to rule,

shriek for the land that has

refused to grow.

Squeal for the stunted land,

land-the central government

shall become Santa Claus,

with iron rod to inflict injury

upon enemies.

Bawl-yes-yammer

as federating units

shall remain pupils-almajeris-

resulting in socio-economic

and political kwashiorkor;

snivel as federal powers

will be abused.

Bleat over federal powers,

consider how current holders

will use the power to
perpetrate and promote

decades of frauds-

as 2017 Census be conducted;

Nigerians just contemplate

how tilted and biased

“Federal Character” policy will be

under the future dispensation-

in favor of Regional Character.

Bellow as a section in the land

may be insensitive to the

feelings of others,

vociferate as collective wealth

will be up for grab by a new

political and economic mafia;

weep and weep again

as North-South Dichotomy

will re-emerge.

Be alarmed as concentrated

defense and security apparatus

in federal hands be used to

pursue sectional and promote
religious agenda.

Weep over hunger, misery,

anger that will pervade in the

land;

cry over failures,

incompetence, injustices,

arrogance, and wickedness

that will rule over the land.

Weep over suppression of

civil institutions in the land,

mourn over attacks on

legislature to create a

free pass to

dictatorship and fascism.

Cry over anti-social-cum-

religiously-toned-policies

that will take the land

backward;

weep over reign of

impunity, return of

ethno-religious crises.

Weep as a select,

but powerful individuals,

power-behind-the-throne

through back doors take

over the reign of the land.

Cry! Cry!! Cry!!!

Weep! Wail!! Howl!!!

For the Land-

One Hundred and Seventy

Million People called Home,

most populous Black nation in the

universe;

land of two great Rivers-

Niger and Benue,

a land of 450 nationalities-

NIGERIA.

  

***OUR POETRY ARCHIVE***: SILAS OLA ABAYOMI

***OUR POETRY ARCHIVE***: SILAS OLA ABAYOMI