Life hustle and bustle keeps the soul broken and the body masking smile refusing to portray what is truly felt, for one must be strong that's life bustle.
People in shirts so bright like the blue sky moves around with shoulder high locked inside them are stories, stories too deep to tell. So many people with diverse issue, going through diverse things yet instead of comfort they get scorning, jeering and jail. So when Naeto in the volume of words expatiate on these real life issue and pray for joy soon it sinks deep into the soul like balm applied over swollen skin.
This poem affects every human person across all works of life. Naeto tells the story of both those born into the streets, life for them, battle and instinct of survival and those boys born with silver spoon whose spoons were snatched but vowed they must get a gold one. Boys who were born with plastic and wood spoon and have decided within them that it must be gold.
He tells the story of those whose dreams are snatched away, “boys who drew aeroplanes in their heart” but proceeded to “send failure on errand and ambush it with success.” Naeto’s poem is a shoulder, a shoulder to head dropping from burden, it is the hand that taps your back when the body is sinking. It is an anti depressant therapy somebody out there cares for those who “cancels the counsel of depression and build castles of depressed” boys who had vowed they will never return home until nothing becomes something.
This inspires zero to something. I like that he expounds and hammers on hard work, real men with legit money making ways. And the general struggle.
Naeto’s igbo intonation brings the words home. We can relate. It makes you relate. And when he uses the phrase “Dear Boys” there's that surging in of energy into your veins, you whose spaces in your skin competes with veins, head wrinkles erect like erected penis. In all there's no giving up, no dragging legs, no sliding. This should be a national anthem for Boys, should be used in nationwide conference and it should be given to every single hustler out there.
His words offers embrace. Feel the hugs in his words.
Naeto’s for Boys like Me, still forever will be an inspiration to me, and to all boys out there.
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