I Don't Know by Abike Benson

I Don't Know

I don't know, and I won't pretend to know

I don't know bad. Do I know good?

Witchcraft was her means

She got all for them making others cry

Her own children are nobles

No one knows the secret

And then she dies.

It is a befitting burial. Golden casket

Food and wine like a flowing river

Sound of music everywhere

Then it is testimony time

"Abiyamọ tòótọ́ọ́" they praised her

But is she really good?

I don't know, and I won't pretend to know

I don't know ugly. Do I know beauty?

What a dark face!

Wrinkled hands, all covered with hair

Monkey can be ugly

Its mother always see differently

How convenient?

You call it ugly

Or you don't just like it?

It is in the eyes of the beholder

It is what it seems to you

But is it really ugly?

I don't know, and I won't pretend to know

I don't know love. Do I know hatred?

Riches attract with fleet of cars and affluence

He is a royalty. She easily falls for him

How convenient?

Beauty attracts with gorgeousness

She will have crowd controlling problem

I mean men controlling problem 

Is it really love?

I don't know, and I won't pretend to know

I don't know life. Do I know death?

I'm alive. Or so I think

Maybe I am not. Am I just confused?

But those in heaven live still

When they are dead here 

The living dead!

I cannot explain the expression.

I don't know, and I won't pretend to know

I don't know generous. Do I know stingy?

I thought I knew

Until someone was given a cap

And had his head taken from him

Beware of money givers

What if he's buying virtue not for sale

How then can I know?

Trade by barter ring a bell

But never found its synonym.

Words can be misinterpreted

Actions misjudged

The physical eyes have limitations

A think lining covering the mind

Not like a big bowl,

The stomach cannot be opened

Many ambiguities in a single line

Relativity of words driving me crazy

How can I know if I don't know?

And why should I misjudge?

Concluding almost impossible

If I don't know. Yet, won't pretend to know.

Abike Benson