Tuesday, September 1, 2015

SILAS OLA ABAYOMI


SILAS OLA ABAYOMI

ADDICTION: MASTER OF MANY SOULS

Addiction-highway that leads
its travelers to nowhere,
a hypnotic condition of mind-
master or idol to many souls-
which victims have no control
over.

Under its arms-several people
nestle-
its palms-a deceptive crystal ball-
that gives non-reliable future
prediction,
its feet, though very swift,
always, it runs a lost race.

In its courtyard are myriads,
subjects of its kingdom are
young males and females,
viable economic group,
biologically imbued in
the society.

Addiction neither hires
nor provides noble venture for its
own,
still, in its courtyard are millions
layabout;
wages it pays is time stealing,
inheritance it bequeaths is
poverty and irredeemable
ruination to those with
opaque-mental-disposition (OMD).


During the day and at night,
multitude come to its
courtyard-
to receive promises,
promises-like dewdrops-
misty and foggy-
just like mirage, which will never be.

Addiction, a bizarre condition of
mind with a possessed-
personality and unholy-
power that turns rational
mind to zombie.

So powerful, yes,
very commanding,
it takes physical control of
those-it rules;
addiction-so lethal-
it renders mental power useless-
by deactivating brain wires and
electrical signals or at best
turns brain automated.

Without question,
addiction demands obedience,
expects loyalty from its disciples,
making religion out of fans;
religion that gravitates
toward perversion and absurdity.

For centuries its vineyard has
produced more rotten fruits of:
depression, hyperactive disorder,
solitude, relationship deficiency,
social, moral, and sexual behaviors
contrary to reason and decency.

How long will addiction rule
over humankind?
Insofar man has more rum in
drums,
inasmuch as more drugs on
the streets and in the
neighborhoods,
addiction will continue to
rule as king.

To the extent,
we build everything around
sex and,
much as sex’s traditional
tripartite role of: intimacy,
procreation, and pleasure are
replaced by: man-defined roles of:
sex as a tool, sex as a business, and
sex as a power;
addiction shall keep permanent
residency with man,
walk tall, control the quintet-
mankind makeup;
more so, torment man with
horsewhip.


Silas Ola Abayomi






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