Sunday, 14 June 2015

KAYE (NUPE POEM): EGBAZUN YA WE (Falling for You)

by 
Isyaku Bala Ibrahim

Egbazun Ya We
Bolo-bolo jin nyá we
wun à mi kugba dankin
Boye ci à nyagban mi gbadza

Jin karanyi
boye è gan
Esungan boyeci
wunjin bayiba re
wun ma jin boyibali à
Cincin gá wun è yi wun ò

Mi à fa wuru na
cincin kan na
Mi à le gun kata na
Cincin tú na

Yizhe eza gubà nana
Zhiko gá yi enábán a ò
Na è ye dzodzo daga sìsábó lo dzakanbó na
Na la kagbo be bola è won dozhigun
Bambe kakpe nyi
Oh! Cincin kpe ayibu à
Ezananvo ma go éyéshi à
Ama mi à zungba zun?

Translation:

FALLING FOR YOU

Your character
Has shattered my wings
As my heart is wrapped in likeness

Tread slowing
Love warns
Your stubbornness
Is not weakness
Your disturbance is care

I will rest in the shed
Put up by your love
And sleep in the hut
Built by it

In this world of ours
Darkness is light
And we play our adulthood as infant
As strength and weakness alternates
Unnoticed
Oh! Love sees no weakness
As hatred appreciates no pampering

But I’m I in love

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