COME TO LAGOS
A city too big too small
Always alive without dull
Refusing to sleep when night fall
You have never seen ladies this beautiful
From hair to toe fanciful
This backside that sways will make you doubtful
If it is not a 3D making animation colorful
Story of models without runways
Turning the roads, churches and schools to runways
One will turn your heart a runway
If you think you have seen the best of religion
Come to Lagos and your past experience fades to oblivion
Twenty buildings on a street nineteen are churches or mosque
Nineteen preachers preaching eighteen are rogues
Eighteen miracles just happened
Twenty magics just happened
Someone went to bed to dream to be rich
Another stayed awake to realise the dream of the dreamer
Come to Lagos and make it quick
Be smart and make it quicker
Wealth coexisting with poverty
Peace romancing calamity
Thousands of beggars on the road to the rich man's mansion
But it is the poor that still gives to the beggars with passion
Rolls Royces, Lamborghini and Ferrari competing
With commercial buses for a lane on a bad road
Dangote truck running with a heavy load
It is the beauty and the beast
Lagos splendour hosting odour to a feast
So, if you ever need a city of comfort and discomfort
Of sinning saints of sinners cohort
Of righteous sinners building holy forts
Of squalor and splendour
Of easy life or rigour
Come to Lagos
On that side of Lagos a lad committed suicide for hunger
On this side a rich man disposing food he needs no longer
The wealthy old man looking younger
Could be the husband of your young daughter
A city of two tales
One hale the other frail
Stepping on one tail
If you are stuck in Lagos traffic you are lucky
People do sleep in traffic
It is nothing new or tragic
You are in a mega city.