MAN, MONKEY, MONEY... by Tukur Ridwan Olorunloba

Day12
365daypoetryforadvocacyandsocialchangechallenge

Man , Monkey ,Money ..

sanity stumbles in a state

of erratic emergencies...

a poem once said with his voice of lines

that we are in a jungle -

some of us were bought

into the zoo some years back.

we are still animals anyways.

we torment the ears of tourists

with our voices of vanity -

noises, nonsenses, nuisances

being made of our niche as mankind.

we have been tricked with bananas

of lies once again by fellow sapiens

and we go bananas

when mon-K-eys munched on mon-eys...

we should find the direct variation

(K is the constant).

we chew this fruit of falsehood in futility,

sweet as the lies we lick everyday.

the primates in us have found

a safe haven in humorous hoaxes.

we hang on trees of tricks and theft

and take things as thrown at us,

and go bananas all the time

while monkeys digest moneys in their system

and grow with millions!

if bananas are good for man,

then money should be, for monkeys too.

we have swapped our sanity

on what is due to our Caesar-

let monkeys' to monkeys be,

let humans' to humans be.

primates have come to take what is theirs

from the back to the front

on the lane of evolution,

and men have become monkeys now...

we have gone back to the roots.

this is another civilization:

an inverse variation

on anthropology.

Tukur Ridwan Olorunloba is a socio-political literary advocate and a Nigerian Poet and Essayist who hails from Lagos State, attained his B.Sc degree in Political Science; University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His love for poetry has landed him a contributive role in the Nigerian literature since 2013 when he began the journey of writing. His works have appeared on online literary platforms such as ace world and words, rhymes & rhythms. He is currently a freelance writer, with special focus on poetry on any theme or any form.

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