Our Baale is a Learner

Today I did the unusual

I sat waiting to be told on NTA some real stuff

Little did I know I was in for the usual?

Baale never cease to thwart walahi

Once again Baale took the doubters to the cleaners

I am a learner he exclaimed! And so what?

I remember Baale’s coronation

Dancing and wriggling of waists that now lies in waste

Baale’s wife a true spectacle to behold

Her ways with words, even the ancestors wouldn’t dare

Now almost four seasons we still battle with masquerades

But wait, Baale will learn on the job!

Surrounded by many tale tellers Baale declares

No Baale can learn like I do!

So Baale how do we find the missing village pots they asked?

Lets the oracles in the next village help he declares

To Baale, tears and blood should be flow like a river

The second coronation party will not be postponed!

With fear I received the news of the impending visit of the masquerade

But wait, can’t the Baale order the village hunters to town?

Why can’t the palace guards keep the palace jail securely fastened?

It's two weeks and hundreds of precious village pots are still missing?

Why has the Baale’s wife taken up the job of the hunters?

Oh…..how did I forget…our Baale is a Learner!

                                                                           Omo-Ekun, Ilu Nla!