DIDACTIC: "STOP THIS MISBEHAVIOUR!" BY AJAKAYE STRIDA

Stop this misbehavior!

Your nails are unnaturally long

and you cannot write on the board as you ought to.

The pinna of each ear having four golden earrings,

Tik Toking your bust to the world,

your legs becoming glued to daily clubbing

like everyday is Friday.

Over-excitement over slight birthday celebrations.

Stop this misbehavior!

Achievements are now common to men,

for more prosperities are cooked than duked,

"attitude" is the salt of ambitious lives,

the heavens see character

being ignored in the battle for success.

When humility, love, transparency...are saved above ambition,

success is steady, don't you admire Olamide of YBNL?

Stop this misbehavior!

Aiming to live sweet

but finding agbo too bitter to drink.

Forgetting that the sweetness of coconut

is birthed after wild fingers, cutlass and hammer.

Raising your nose and making hisses

at disciplinary statements made to you,

if time corrects the cloud on daily basis, then who are you?

Stop this misbehavior!

There is productivity in purity,

character is the salt of ambition,

legacy lives after life.

Drag your ears towards reasonable lifestyles,

such that, your lives would not be buried in bones

even before death come knocking.

© RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE

STRIDA... guiding you to striking confidence in academic and creative writing!

2024

- Nigeria 

The poet persona advises man to cease from unreasonable lifestyles. Some of them are: excessive use of the Internet, indiscipline, hunger for luxurious life, terrible attitude and others. Hence, the speaker advises readers to live up reasonably.