Rats are cars with four legs and a tail I call loot,
Rats are cars found everywhere.
The cars I have seen rest in garages but rats hide in holes.
Rats wag their tail to show their greed, to show their breed.
Rats run everywhere to reach nowhere.
Rats hide treasures where measures lag,
They hide booties where armies lag,
Holes are tears for rats, pains for rats, scars for rats.
Holes are wounds for rats.
Rats run everywhere and never get Anywhere,
They eat everything and never feed on Anything,
They dig everything and never did excavate Anything,
Rats hide in holes when others go Home.
Rats live everywhere and never did
Become a citizen,
Rats carry everything and never did
Lift anything,
Rats marry everything and never did love
Any,
Rats hide in holes when others
Go home.
It’s sad to be hungry in the kitchen, to be thirsty when it’s raining, to be poor when wealthy, to be sad when laughing.
Rats are always hungry when eating, always dying when living.
It’s a curse to be lonely among the crowd, to be divorced among singles, to be mad among lads.
Darkness lives in a hole, evil lives in a hole, Beast lives in a hole, Sinners live in holes.
Rats dig everything and never did extracted
Anything,
Rats steal everything and never did need anything.
In a rat race, you end up losing your face, losing your race.
Running back into holes is mourning for rats; mourning is morning for rats,
Holes are no homes for rats.
Most people are rats running up
And down,
They run beyond light, beyond God, beyond grace.
Holes are graves for rats.
Holes are caves for rats.
Most people are rats running here and there.
Most politicians, leaders, scientists and clergymen are rats trapped in holes.
Holes are no home for rats, home is everything.
Are you a rat?
Do you live in a hole?
Most people are rats in the night
They bark inside darkness
They bask inside evil.
Are you a rat hiding and crying In a hole?
Home is everything.
Paul Oluwafemi David is a Nigerian who fell in love with poetry watching the beauty of nature; he is a student of Professor Wole Soyinka and Ben Okiri.
Currently, he is a student doctor at the college of human medicine university of Nigeria Nsukka with a strong mandible for the wonders of the universe. He has been published in AFRICAN WRITER, PRAXIS MAGAZINE AND PRIDE MAGAZINE NIGERIA. His work is about to be published in TUCK, BANGALORE, NANTYGREENS and KALAHARI