Dire Position

1. Food has been said

To be given man

Nutrients and energy when

We take food in to our body.

 

Yoruba Food (Amala)

2. When people fast they

Would have a time when

They would bring the

Fasting to a close

3. So that they would not

Look frail, weak and

Unable to do their daily

Chores again.

4. God and nature have

Designed this to be

And when people want

To go against this

5. They would bring problems

On themselves as they

Would be inviting “opportunistic

Infections” making their systems

6. Places of abode. What they

Would spend in seeing that

Such opportunistic infection leaves

Their systems would be more

7. Than ensuring that they

Maintain the status quo, feeding

Themselves daily. Apart from

What they would spend

8. The pains and anguish that

They will also pass through

Are better imagined that

Experienced by anyone.

9. Therefore, since ancient times

Man have been making

Sure that he eats something

Feeds himself to ensure sustenance

10. however, when humans eat,

Our bodies would metabolize what

We have eaten, and the

Needful energies and nutrients

11. Would be supplied to our

Systems after which the

Un-used ones would be

Excreted out of our body.

12. Not long after this has

Been done, our bodies would

Send signals to our brains

That our abdomens are empty

13. There would also be no

Energy again to carry out

The needful works we ought

To be carrying out.

 

14. We will start feeling hunger

Pangs in them and would

Seek for means of taken

In another food to replace

15. The food that has left

Our body, replacing the

Energy so that we shall

Not incur on ourselves

16. What we should have

Waded off. As we do

This we become activated again

And we would be able

17. To face the daily

Chores, actively think and do

Those things that are necessary

For ourselves and humanity.

18. We can also view money

In this light when we

Are expending money we

Must also be replacing them

19. For when we fail to

Replace them we shall soon

Run out of the money we

Have and when we run

20. Out the money we have

We shall be like a person

Who has excreted all the

Contents in him or her

21. And is becoming frail without

Energy and vigor to carry

Out his needful works

Because money possessed a power

22. On its own. When we

Spend without replacing it

Neither have substantial sources

Of getting it replaced we shall

23. Be like a gun that has

Run out of bullets, powerless,

And has become an

Ordinary toy in the hand

24. Of its handler. This

Is dire position that

The lockdown has placed many

People who go out daily

25. To fend for themselves

In the developing countries

Without having another source

Of replacing the money they

26. Are being spent daily.

It is therefore not surprising

To discover that some people

Who could not endure the

27. Lack of money on them

Go out and harm others

Go out and join the bad wagons

Stealing and burgling houses.

28. It is a dire condition,

A dire position that has

Affected many people in the

Developing world.

29. Some of us are looking

Forward to a time when

The system would change and

Advanced further than this

30. For this lockdown has

Revealed that when money

Is being spent it must be replaced,

It has revealed the position of

31. The developing world that

We need to work on

Ourselves improve our systems

No one would do it for us

32. We are those who will do

It for ourselves, we need to

Put on our thinking caps

And block the necessary holes