By
Amore David Olamide
Ogedengbe Agbogun Gboro
Tell the crickets not to piercingly chirp
Agbogunloro will feed on their stiffs
Tell the bees not to stridently beep
Ogedengbe will storm their forbidding midst.
He’s the lips unopened sprouting allegories to the cryptic gods
He’s the arms unmoved waving farewell to mystic demigods
Tell them about the belligerent Saraibi Ogedengbe
Agbogun Gboro of Ijesha and subordinates.
He’s an eyes seeing more than the sunshine
He’s a throat feeding on nauseating herbal damp
He’s a nose stanching war from far distance
He’s a mission unattainable for malevolence rival.
He’s a face with annual appalling smile
He’s a body clothed with voodoo clad
He’s a feet steady but assembling myriad step
He’s a voice jolting chaps and demon’s pep.
He’s a body sleeping wakes by infinite lumbers
He’s a single combatant that had the town terrified
He’s a hunter that assassinated Arogididgba
And fed on it without permitting riddance.
Tell them with chest and back he faces wars
Tell them with brooms and fronds he faces battalions
Tell them with barefoot he walks in midst of thorns
And he returns without several mutilations.
Tell them Ifa forecasted his birth
Tell them Odu foretell his commitment
Them them Ejiogbe spotted him as saviour
Tell them he was born to be valorous.
Tell them he engaged in brawling contest
Tell them at youthful age he floored competent men
Tell them he won local wrestling accolades
Tell them about his rigid voyage.
Tell them he was dreadfully beheaded
Tell them he walked towards it and fitted his head
Tell them about him that bamboozled death
Tell them about Ogedengbe with inscrutable etiquette.
Tell them he distressed Ibadan and subordinates
Tell them he gallantly sold Ekiti as slaves
Tell them he fearlessly went to the sod of Edo state
And received appease before desisting from their domain.
He sees sadism and dances it around
He sees battles and amusingly calls it pond
He sees blood and calls it waters of inscrutable aliens
He sees himself mightier than ten thousand men.
Fabunmi Oke-Imesi is no measure of your personality
Ogunmola of Ibadan is no match of your potency
Onafowokan of Ijebu, was a hero of 19th century
Agbogun Gboro was greater for he is enigmatic.
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