THOSE DAYS

Truly those days were fun, Little children playing each, With a fine decorated toy gun, Life was serious yet catchy; And we were easily convinced ‘ Sit back, I will buy you Akara’, Was enough to pacify and evinced. I can still peep through the silhouette, Of throwing stones at Mango fruit, And playing with a plate of omelette, Those hid and seek games in the rain, Truly those days were fun, We went on errands without gain, Whether it was under the sun! And when a person died in the hays, Goosebumps, fear sits in the air; I can’t forget those jannock days, As fear was harbored, decency was the heiress An old woman could tell her daughters, “Do not touch or allow a man touch you, For when you do, you will be in a family way:” I wish to go back to those days in decipher, For the imagination of her dream, is not new. These days; Even a seer can’t see what a teen talks, And behold, they are all on Tiktok, Staring at things our fathers only but imagined, And when you tell them to face their books, Oh God! They are on Facebook, These days, decency is just but a crime, And when you see it, we call it archaic; Mothers that should do their job, Are their, on the sad side of Instagram, Influencing in their nude paraphernalia! Majority of these parents will taste, Eli’s strength, a sad reality disguising, And truly this age is punctured; And it is bleeding in black jars, Where then should I start the tale from, Truly the beat has changed; Leaving us naked in the daylight; Where is our morality forte? Even the news of these days, Does not sit well with the mind... It is either abduction, manslaughter, Banditry, and all those odd news, I’m debilitated and would want, To go back to those days! My eyes are witness to this insouciant.