In Search of the Lost Tongue
They journeyed back to the past
Digging deep into archives vast
Day and night they laboured on
Unearthing bones from ancient tombs
In search of the lost tongue
The mother tongue of Urhobos
The rope that bound the people as one
Long-lost in the rubble of Ughelli
Under the wreckage of the colonial masters
In the ultimate search by traditionalists
To recover this precious Edoid artifact
And to reclaim their native charms
What they found has putrefied
Foul pidgin flying out of the whole
From the mouth of their offsprings
English Pidgin, full of vile expressions
And flowery metaphors
Has adulterated their true mother tongue
The tongue with which elders conjured words divine
Has lost its power in slanging
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