Tawai! Tawai!
Tawai! Tawai!
We slap ourselves
Tawai! Tawai!
We slap each other
Sometimes the slap hurts
More than the bite
(the type that so often
ends with a fight)
Tawai! Tawai!
Almost every night
Tawai! Tawai!
If only there was light
Last night, I slapped
a sleeping child,
and I know a child will slap
his mother tonight
Tawai! Tawai!
the neighbors are clapping
Tawai! Tawai!
at two in the morning
“Maybe we should just
paint the wall red,
the colour of blood”
my daughter once said
Tawai! Tawai!
blood on our hands
Tawai Tawai
to prevent Malaria
but the cause of this illness is
not always mosquito,
sometimes, it might be the
Tawai! Tawai!
-Seun Lari-Williams
Extract from the book of poetry, “A Little Violence”
Blessings
April 25, 2022Funny😁
Towobade Sulaiman
April 25, 2022Tawai! Tawai!!!
So hilarious