Labimpe rejects black men
She is in love with a white man
With blue eyes and Grey hair
Who speaks fluent English.

They would sit and chat and laugh.
I watched
How loosely his smiles held his yellow cheeks
While he smiles at me
And how red it switches
In the click of a second
When he smiles at Labimpe.
They would sit and chat and laugh.
Then he would go.

His name is Daniel
But she calls him Dan.
And sometimes Prince Charming.
I have no idea
If Daniel is of royalty
But he is no charming
At least, to me.
Than the fishermen of Elemi river.

The fishermen of Elemi river
Have rich skins in copper black
Healthy, hardworking and able men.
But Labimpe rejects them all.
She is in love with a white man

His name is Daniel
Her name is Vanessa
She calls him Dan
He calls her Van
They would sit and chat and laugh
While I admire him speaking in English
Obviously native American.

Gbenga,
My friend's son I'd introduce her to
She told him no.
She rejects all black men
This isn't new.
Van is in love with Dan!
Her prince charming.
A white man;

Royal blue are his eyes
Of aro adire
Like the depth of Elemi rivers
Where iron fishes dwell
His hair is of imo ope
Arranged broomsticks
The colour of pre-funeral of those
Whoever tried to destroy me.

The smell of his fragrance
Makes me sick
He calls it cologne
Scented toilet water
That charms my precious daughter.

Labimpe can't take her eyes off the wizard!
His spells works on her before my very eyes.
The white man is a magician.
He laughs and she laughs.
He chats on his phone while she steal glances
In guilty pleasures.

He laughs and she laughs.
Their laughter arise the beasts in me;
My eyes gets red
He kisses her in front of me
Then she starts chanting him praises
When he calls her bitch
She is pleased with it.
'Isn't that a female dog?'
I asks her
She tells me it's a slang for angel.
Irony to 'the love of my life'
Labimpe calls me an illiterate
To back off her man.

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aro adire: water-based or plastisol ink to print on a tie-dyed garments. It is commonly used in west Africa.

Elemi: A spiritual river, said to be the source of Osun river. Elemi holds several supernatural powers. The fishes there can't be cooked.

Imo ope: Peeled palm tree leaves, used for brooms in Southern Nigeria.