Borderless Mobs
We have evolved over the years
As a people with a way of life
We have learnt of a new way
To express our anger at every passing day.
They say you only die once,
But today you have an option
To die and live multiple times
From bullets of insults
And thriving emoji of assaults.
So easy it is today
To cross meadows and mountains
To fly across cities without wings
And enter homes unwanted
Just to insult someone’s father.
We have all been smeared in the face
With strange words from strange books
Written and authored by nameless crooks
Aiming through wireless chords
And vulgar letters on dark keyboards.
They are the borderless mobs
From different colours and cultures
In varying groups and genders
Lurking lividly on the screen
Waiting anxiously to launch their missiles.
Speak the language they understand
You may be spared to live another day
Share and like in their delusion
You will earn a follow through the foray
And your enemies definitely become theirs.
The borderless mobs
Lord over us from their homes
Remotely launching towards us
While being lauded from their fortified domes.
We have become estranged as a people
Like scavengers looking for a prey
To pummel with disparaging phrases
Less bothered if a man was sent to the life beyond.
Eyesores when I’s are un-dotted
Mockery accompanies an uncrossed “t”
And Survival comes with its wit
Where canes and cudgels can’t do the job
Words are enough to make you sob.
© Ayinla Muyideen
March,2023
Copyright © Muyideen Ayinla | Year Posted 2023
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