Poem — There’s No Point Going There (Ko si aaye lati lọ sibẹ)

Seun Adeyemi
1 min readMay 1, 2023

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Illustration by Seun Adeyemi

We left and we came back,

We met people, we saw good places,

What did we learn from our travels?

Ah, we’ve forgotten sha!

Let’s pack our bags and return back there

We have reached there again,

We saw good things,

We met good and bad people,

We got good ideas and insights.

But we forgot them in the Hotels.

White big bird flying back home

Roars of joy at the airport

Our leader is back home

Everyone, let’s welcome our leader

Welcome, Ekaabo, Ndewo, barka da zuwa Oga

Ah, kiloshele

The Leader and his team have left the basket of fishes in their hotels

No worries, pack your bags again

Let’s go somewhere

Leader go, Leader come

Return, forget

Forget and return

We ask ourselves again

What did we learn from our travels?

What did we see?

Who did we meet?

Why did we go?

But no,

We can’t remember

We will go somewhere else afterwards

let’s go back again.

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Seun Adeyemi
Seun Adeyemi

Written by Seun Adeyemi

Artist. Antiquarian. Historian. Finance/Economics.

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