MIDNIGHT RAPE

They come suddenly'n'murder my sleep

Altering my dreams I wake up'n'weep

Every night that I lay upon my bed

        Snoring deep like a dead                                               
They come suddenly'n'murder my sleep 

Altering my dreams I wake up'n'weep

...Rats plunder my stock

Bed-bugs, mosquitoes prey upon my blood'n'suck

Rattling, struggling, dragging, Rats plunder my stock

Bed-bugs, mosquitoes prey upon my blood'n'suck

Small cockroaches too invade'n'*Tambolo* will bite

For blood-suckers, before dawn're all out of sight

...'n'*Tambolo will bite

Why they come at such a time I snore deep

I do not know, but their menace'll make me weep

Even I cannot my sweet dreams hold'n'save

Coz every time of my night's a midnight rape...

            -  by ---- Adeola Goloba

*Tambolo :- is a Yoruba word (a Nigerian Language) for a very small and tiny wild brown Ant that stings. 

This poem is a metaphor of what an average poor Nigerian goes through every moments of his life. It is a solidarity call to his plights and his lamentations...a constant reminder to the outright resistance against the unending socio-economic warfare launched by the few political affluent upon the poor masses of our Great Nation called NIGERIA.

We must fight!...fight...fight...and fight!...to the last...