I’m a wanderer, I have no place to stay
No place to call home
I have no voice, I go unnoticed
I am but a shadow
Oun ojú rí, enu ò le so
What the eyes have seen, the mouth cannot tell

Today I met madness
Madness
Today I must therefore speak

Àgbà kìí wa lójà kórí omo tuntun wó
An elder does not watch the young one go astray
Therefore I must speak
Madness, let me be, I must speak!

I’ve seen you and I’ve watched you
For a long time, I have watched you
I have waited for this day, the day I would finally look into your eyes
I knew what to expect – those glaring, unrepenting, fearless eyes.

I feel sorry for you, madness
But more for my people
My people who have failed to notice your sly ways
Like a trained thief, you make them give you what is rightfully theirs
I’ve seen how you’re hell bent on destruction
Oh, how indeed you have destroyed!
My people do not see, and the irony,  they have indeed welcomed you
Madness.

Madness is how we’ve lost our values
Madness is how we don’t see wrong as wrong anymore
Madness is hate
Madness is how we walk about naked, without shame
Madness is what has engulfed my people

Today, however, I tried to catch madness
But she slipped right through my hands
Then I knew, this was no person, this was a thing
I can’t catch madness but I can let you see it for what it really is
Because I discovered, once Madness knows you know it, it disappears
Ignorance is what kills
Eníbálétíkógbó
He who has an ear, let him hear..