DAUDA ONAWOLA

DAUDA ONAWOLA

AMOUNT

They warned against draught

But when that warning came

There was a load on ground

So we didn't think evil to good

They asked us to do something, we did

They told us to buy something of this land

And give it to someone (described)

We did every thing

Now it is time

Or what are we seeing

Thousands of twenties ave finished

Hundreds (of thirties) have vanished

How we then spent the amount is the thing we don't understand

We went and we are back

This thing was exhausted

What we said and saw

It's even going the more, that one too we don't understand

We have called home

Where we came from, where we said

If death spares you at home

It is difficult to die outside

Let us now listen to what they have to say

The warners of good and evil

When we are able to escape the home death

The journey is sure

Here I am, here I am

God in heaven, Father, the saviour

Show those you sent

What exactly went wrong

Why we don't understand the amount again

IYE

Won ni kasora fun oda

Sugbon igba ti ikilo yen wa

Eru n be nile

Nio je ki a robi rore

Won ni ki a se kini, a se

Won ni ki ara nkan ile yi

Ka gbe feni bayi

Gbogbo re pata lase

Asiko ti wa to

Abi ki la n ri

Egberun ogun ti tan

Ogorun ogbon ti wole

B'ase wa na iye, iyen ni kowa ye

A ti wa lo ati de

Araabi ti tan

Oun ti awi tari

Otun wa n losi ni, iyen gan ko tun ye

Ati wa pe ile

Ibi ta ti wa, ibi tawi lawi

Se bi iku ile ba danisi

Tode ko le pani

Je ki awa gbo oun ti won fe wi

Awon akilo ire ati ibi

Bi iku ile ba de, ti n ba rori ye

Ajo ti daju

Mo ti de, mo ti de

Olorun loke baba gbani gbani

Fi han awon ti o ran

Nkan gangan tode

Ti iye ko fi yeni mo

WHAT I SAW

Committee committee

Can't you see life

I was not born here

Hustle brought me here

Little of what I saw

You better let me say

Salute to the crown on the head

The road is far, come and see what I have seen

I didn't do this

They said we should do another one

Making how many here

Salute to daylight, respect to fate

Salute to sunset, respect to fate

Salute to goodness, there is no evil here

Come and see what I saw again

How its all going to be

Fate knows but won't say

Committee committee

The Almighty brought me here

The One that saw it all before me

Help me fight the battle of destiny

OUN TI MO RI

Komiti komiti

E roju aye bi

Ibi ko ni won bi mi si

Laala atila lo gbemi debi

Die ninu  ti mo ri

Ejee je ki n wi

Iba ade ti o n be lori

Ona jin, ewa wo oun ti mo ri

Emi ko lose tibi

Won batun ni ki asemi

O di melo nibi

Iba oju ojo o, iba ori

Iba eyin orun, iba ori

Iba ire ni moju, ko sibi ni ibi

Ewa wo oun ti mo tun ri

Gbogbo bi yio se ri

Lori ti ri ti ko ni wi

Komiti komiti

Eleduwa lo sunmi debi

Oba toti ri kin to ri

Wa bami jagun ori

IF

If I understood life, i'd have stopped contemplating

If man knew when he'll make it

he'd have desisted from running for wealthy future

If man knew when he'll die

and how many days he has left

he'd have been striving not to vanish completely

If man knew his journey of no return

he'd not die in time (live longer)

because on the day of woe, he won't walk

because he had seen

If I understood life, i'd have stopped stopped contemplating

If time saved me, I'd have stopped running helter skelter

If I knew life, I'd have stopped the quest

If man knew the way, he won't get lost

God, pronoune me successful

Whether I run or walk slowly

my path should just lead to success

BI

Bi aye ba ye mi, n ba ti ye woye

Bi eda ba mo ojo ti yi o la,

eda o bati ye foni sare ola nitori ola

Bi eda ba mo ojo iku

ti o mo ojo ti o ku

eda o ba sise siseku

Bi eda ba mo ode aremabo

eda o bama ku boro

tori lojo ina eda o ni rina

nitoripe eda ti riran

Bi aye ba ye mi, n ba ti ye woye

Bi igba ba gbami, n ba ti ye sa gbami gbami

Bi mo ba maye, n ba ti ye waye

Bi eda ba mo ona ko ma ni sonu

Eledumare wa petemi ni ire

Bi mo ba sare tabi mo rin gbere

ki ona mi sati jasire

WHEN YOU...

When you don't lie, you are not right.

When you feel shy, something is bad.

When you speak truth, you may not last.

When you feel good, you need keep mute.

When you you go on, you drop and pick things.

When you leave but can't return, you are not the first.

When you come from nowhere, the welcome is less.

When you are vague, you are cumbersome.

When you are clear, you you are strict.

When you make mistakes, you are foolish.

When you aim perfection, you are too far.

When you run, you are too fast.

When you walk, you are too slow.

When you are poor, you are stupid.

When you get rich, idiocy equates wisdom.

When you do things, there is a reason and/or meaning,

sometimes, somebody or some bodies read contrary cause and/or effect

and funny enough about life drama,

they are not always wrong.

DAUDA ONAWOLA

LIFE DRAMA

Too much comedies,

countless tragedies,

tragecomdies and cometragedies

and what have we

in where have we;

genres of life drama,

not only of the play,

the one you read and watch.

In this case, everyone is a lead character

but not every one is aware of the story line.

The location is the largest possible,

the real universe in entirety.

The duration is forever,

it started from a time unknown

to end sometimes later.

The actors were there yesterday,

they find themselves here today

and would be somewhere tomorrow.

Funny motions and sad moments,

every type of every scene and every being.

The coverage is supernatural.

The primary director, the cause of the actions

remains as vague as the contents of destiny.

Actors set destinations

but the director's will is not always in line

and the route to the target is sometimes off track,

might even be opposite in direction.

The point of landing, duration of journey

and time of arrival are factors calling the action.

I wish to narrate also the end of the living drama

but it is an acute tragedy

in which all actors shall end in the show on set.

DAUDA ONAWOLA

THE CAUSE

Life strife;

here, it's the academic banter;

somewhere, it's something better;

elsewhere, it's lesser;

whatever it is in wherever,

it about the first question to answer

i.e matters attached to survival

and the secondary turned primary thing,

extraordinary liberation from being weakling.

All of us, in the latter we sink

the more we struggle the deeper we go

yet Man won't just let go.

Life at heart as in world for man,

as in the former, target of survival

that is a natural owndom of all that lives

but in the latter,

the fervor for stupendous richdom,

the ardor for stour fame,

these, like wrapped weed at tranquillity

the greed in humanity flares the ends

and the smoke drifts towards infinity.

DAUDA ONAWOLA

DAUDA ONAWOLA is a native of OFFA (a Yoruba speaking town), KWARA STATE, NIGERIA but he currently lives and study in SOKOTO STATE in the northern NIGERIA. He finished secondary school as a science student. He discovered his passion for word art in his last year in secondary school (2011), then, he started writing songs/raps and after eight silent tracks, his interest dwindled drastically and was revitalized in 2013. He writes majorly on the difference between the ancient societies and the modern world, hope for the ill-born and his ambient situation. He also has a deep affection for strange/weird natural things or events. His hobbies are travelling, chatting, reading and writing.