Yoruba(land)The land of my ancestors
Birthed by Ile Ife our sacred and spiritual fortress
Home of the children of Oduduwa
Oduduwa, the father of Okanbi
The great enigmatic progenitor
Olofin Adimula and the Yoruba emperor
Divinity in Yoruba pantheon, duke of all dukedoms
The forebear of a commonwealth that abhors fiefdoms
Whose offspring went forth and built empires, civilisations, and kingdoms
Okanbi sired eight offspring
Oranmiyan the great and the conqueror of his siblings
Alpha and omega of the kingship in Benin Empire
And the architect of the pristine Oyo empire
Oyo dialect became the voice of our interactions
One who birthed two great empires and civilisations
The biovular twins that rose and expanded in statue
Conquering all and sundry in longitude and latitude
The sundry became a commonwealth of repute
Like Anthony Gatto, he juggled them both without dispute
Popo founded the kingdom of popo
And the kingship became olupopo
Orunto the forgotten son, Ajero of Ijero
Onisabe of Sabe, Owa Obokun Ajibogun of Ijesa
Orangun of Ila, Alara of Ara
The land of the Osun Osogbo sacred grove
Where the mangrove forest and gods get in groove
IITA forest reserve, Omo-Shasha-Oluwa forest reserve
Ikogosi Warm Springs, Idanre hills
Osun, Ogun, and Oya rivers
Owu falls, Arinta waterfalls
Olumirin - Erin Ijesa waterfalls
Oranmiyan obelisk stands tall
Showing where the mighty walked
Olumo rock the fortress that defined Egbas
Home of the illustrious and ingenious Ife artists,
Whose magnificent artworks left early Europeans in awe
Wondering if they're artefacts from Atlantis
Yorubaland, the marriage of the savannah and rain forest
Where its people thrive in ingenuity and magnanimity
Alluring land that covers an entire coast in Nigeria
To the Republic Du Benin and Togo
With its people scattered all over black diaspora
In exile and via trans-Atlantic slavery
But still seek refuge in the commonwealth
And the omnipotence of Oduduwa and spirituality that unites us all