Poetry

By

Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju

our madness

i

when madness meets madness

mad is made madder maddest…

passers-by…

come feed your hungry ears…poetic gossips…

and please tell me…

what love grows

when a confession of madness

meets a certified insanity?

aduke has confessed madness

akanni boasts of his certificate of insanity and mad is made madder maddest…

ii

when madness meets madness

mad is made madder maddest…

passers-by…

come feed your hungry ears…poetic gossips…

and please tell me…

what spirit of arts

invokes a mad song

and a mad dance?

akanni has sung a song…a mad song

aduke swings her rumps in a mad abandon and mad is made madder maddest

iii

when madness meets madness

mad is made madder maddest…

passers-by

come feed your hungry ears…poetic gossips…

and please tell me…

what change comes

in a mad robe of corruption

and a mad house of leadership?

the umbrella swirls in mad spills of corruption the broom sweeps in a mad imbalance and mad is made madder maddest.

iv

when madness meets madness

mad is made madder maddest…

passers-by

come feed your hungry ears…poetic gossips

i shall tell you what happens

when madness reasons with madness

when madness tells madness of his mad madness…

sanity shall bleed profusely…yes-

until mad knows his madness

existence shall be far from the clouds of sanity…

shall we reason our madness once for saneness?

Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju

Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju hails from Osun State, Nigeria and lives in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He is a teacher of English language and has a B.A(ED) in English from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His poems are published and reviewed on poetry sites and online magazines and blogs here. He loves to work with great minds.