ELEGY: "CONSCIOUS CORPSE" BY AJAKAYE STRIDA

You painfully left since 2023

and it appears like you just had your last breath.

Your face on the media screen always,

your lyrics still commanding streams,

your glory surpasses the power to breathe.

Course of your justice, tongues becoming millionaires, 

I lick my nose that you would have helped 

more souls escape poverty

if you were fully alive.

Fully alive?

Yes, Mohbad...is half-alive.

Believe me or believe me,

oh ye agents of his demise!

Didn't he tell you?

Didn't he tell, that the globe would freeze and burn

if his death is attempted?

Mohbad Promise is like cloud,

his memories are as unavoidable as the walk of time,

every second is as though you just died three seconds earlier,

Ilerioluwa is a legend, 

Mohbad is soil,

humanity is the plant,

humanity will always celebrate you.

Closer and closer is your justice,

with God and likes of Mr Yomi Fabiyi,

we will get to the palace of your justice. 

© RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE

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

Nigeria

2025

The poet persona says the late singer seems not to be forgotten for he is a true legend. The bard praises Mohbad and says he is not dead totally. The voice of the poem believes in the reality of Mohbad's Justice through the power of God and the likes of Mr Yomi Fabiyi.