If #ThisTweet Were an Actual Poem — A compilation.

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So, this is a compilation of tweets from different people that I thought were spot-on. I added a few words to it. I think it should have been longer because #ThisTweet trend touched many societal issues, but I kinda got tired. LOL. I hope you enjoy it.
I’d like to acknowledg.e a few people whose tweets/wisdom contributed to this: Ohiolei @Ohioleii ; hassan. @hassytee; baby boy. @iamrilwan ; eghonghon @eghonghon_ ; Lade Tawak • Iyalode @deaduramilade ; Fettuccine Fiend @KeksiOsheeks; Mr. Oreo @LaseTawak ; BLKKSKNHD @txchukwu ; Oluwatosin Adeshokan @theOluwatosin ; Assumpta Chukwu! ‏@AssumptaCharles.
If you find your tweet here and I forgot to mention your name, forgive me and thanks for your wisdom.

#ThisTweet.

#ThisTweet
#ThisTweet is #ThisTweet
#ThisTweet is that tweet
#Thistweet is tribute to Mutabaruka’s ‘Dispoem’ — Watch/read up that poem if you must.
#ThisTweet is imperfectly perfect
#ThisTweet is beautifully flawed
#ThisTweet is a metaphor
#ThisTweet is the unspoken words that say the most
#Thistweet is for all the words unspoken and the silence said.
#ThisTweet is too sweet for these streets.
#ThisTweet is wrong;
#ThisTweet is right.
#ThisTweet is short;
#ThisTweet is long.
#ThisTweet is simple;
#ThisTweet is hard.
#ThisTweet is life;
#ThisTweet is death.
#Thistweet is a knife to your throat.
#ThisTweet is suicide notes.
#ThisTweet is the boil in your arm pit when you need crutches.
#ThisTweet is the fire in your heart.
#ThisTweet is five words long. Six …Seven …Eight!
#ThisTweet is what you want it to be;
#ThisTweet is who you want to be.
#Thistweet is not a toast, this tweet is not lamb to a cause.
#Thistweet is the personification of an event.
#ThisTweet is smart but clueless.
#ThisTweet is the stupidity in our purported wisdom.
#ThisTweet is a question For why everything must be a contest.
#ThisTweet is an embellished propaganda set to send us back into slavery.
#Thistweet shouldn’t be complex.
#Thistweet should be easily understood.
#thistweet is hell in session. This tweet is a nation in rebellion.
#ThisTweet will break your spine whenever you fathom what #Thistweet is about.
#ThisTweet is the naked truth clothed and sweating under a pile of lies.
#ThisTweet is a burden
#ThisTweet is your want for brighter tomorrow
#ThisTweet is the revolution
#ThisTweet is the exodus from our genesis.
#ThisTweet is the genesis of our revelation.
#ThisTweet is the wages of sin
#ThisTweet is the absolution of sins.
#ThisTweet is a war coming soon.
To defend her unity and honour and glory.
#ThisTweet is the state of Africa.
#ThisTweet is our Nigeria
#ThisTweet is for Nigerians
#ThisTweet is not a blackman
#ThisTweet is not whiteman
#ThisTweet is not the colour between black and white
#ThisTweet is not a person of colour
#ThisTweet is human
#ThisTweet is You
#ThisTweet is Me
#ThisTweet is Us
#ThisTweet is Them
#ThisTweet is Bob Marley
#ThisTweet is Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
#ThisTweet is Ken Saro Wiwa
#Thistweet believes in Nigeria
#Thistweet is Nigerian before Delta
#Thistweet is Nigerian before Edo
#ThisTweet is Ewedu, Tuwon shinkafa, Oha soup, Afang soup, Jollof rice and Chicken
#ThisTweet is Wa Zo Bia
#Thistweet will make #Nigeria work
#ThisTweet
#ThisTweet is the Nigeria that doesn’t work
#ThisTweet is Nepa and mosquitoes
#ThisTweet is bad roads and potholes
#ThisTweet is a checkpoint officer
#ThisTweet is his fifty Naira
#ThisTweet is not tomorrow’s leaders.
#ThisTweet is our ancient saggy bellied politicians not letting the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ come into the light.
#ThisTweet is for the leaders of tomorrow who sadly are the nephews and nieces of the leaders of today.
#ThisTweet is the sins of thieving politicians.
#ThisTweet is blood.
#ThisTweet is oil.
#ThisTweet is for the future leaders. Those who are not afraid to be the change they want to see.
#ThisTweet speaks to the Nigerian Youth. The revolution has begun
The grounds are breaking
They cannot stop you
Be the change Nigeria needs.
#ThisTweet is for the ones that stay strong
The ones that refuse to be put down
The ones that stand up for what they believe.
#ThisTweet is the future of #Nigeria with less than thirty percent prospect.
#ThisTweet is a New Nigeria, the 5th Republic, the Crazy.
#ThisTweet is dictatorship
#ThisTweet is The Dictator
#ThisTweet is Abdel Nasser
#ThisTweet is Idi Amin
#ThisTweet is Sani Abacha
#ThisTweet is Robert Mugabe
#ThisTweet is Mobutu
#thisTweet is fear and oppression
#ThisTweet is the military
#thisTweet is party politics
#thisTweet is a hurting Africa.
#ThisTweet
#ThisTweet is for the parents that suffered just so their children could get the best education.
#Thistweet is not education that strikes it’s pupils.
#Thistweet is educational reform. One point agenda.
#ThisTweet is rich but has a poverty mentality
#ThisTweet is gold iPhones while there are missing girls
#Thistweet will not bring back our girls.
#ThisTweet does not think there is God.
#ThisTweet is hurt. Chai!
#ThisTweet is not seeking missing Principals.
#ThisTweet wants it’s girls
#ThisTweet is for the ones who have faith
Who hope,
Who believe,
#ThisTweet is for the ones that stay strong
The ones that refuse to be put down
The ones that stand up for what they believe.
#ThisTweet is for the people who feel the most alive when they’re inches away from death
#ThisTweet is for the Nigerian soldiers who fell in battle against terrorists.
#ThisTweet is for the goodbyes we never got to say.
#ThisTweet is for the Kainenes who never returned.
#ThisTweet is for Biafra.
#ThisTweet is bro ken
#ThisTweet
#Thistweet is tired, this tweet wills not to be tweeted but #Thistweet won’t stop tweeting.
#ThisTweet is the Nigerian youth tired of being jobless.
#ThisTweet is for friends
turned family Those that make sure that the beautiful memories always outshine the ugly ones;
People we trust.
We hope together;
We stay together.
#Thistweet will not trend.
#Thistweet is fucking sick of cliché.
But
#ThisTweet is already trending.
#ThisTweet is a conspiracy theory.
#ThisTweet is a taboo.
#ThisTweet is true talk.
#ThisTweet is not just a hashtag
#ThisTweet is more than a hashtag
#ThisTweet is the revolution.
#ThisTweet never ends

9 responses to “If #ThisTweet Were an Actual Poem — A compilation.”

  1. ohiolei avatar
    ohiolei

    Reblogged this on Musings from Mushin and commented:
    Yesterday, my friends and I took to twitter by deliberate accident, to lend our tongues to a many cause.

    And Bome, this wonderful person stitched all the ideas together.

    #Thistweet was inspired of Mutabaruka’s Dispoem

  2. deaduramilade avatar

    Reblogged this on Out Of My Head and commented:
    We ran the #ThisTweet hashtag on Twitter for almost all of yesterday.
    It was inspired by MutaBaruka’s “Dis Poem” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzbqgHgvqw

  3. Tami. avatar
    Tami.

    WOW!

  4. goldenwura avatar
    goldenwura

    I was so hurt that I wasn’t online when #thistweet was trending.
    I missed something great.
    Very very lovely. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to be part of it.

    1. theinexperiencedyouth avatar
      theinexperiencedyouth

      You are most welcome.

  5. Oluwatosin Adeshokan avatar
    Oluwatosin Adeshokan

    Reblogged this on Oluwatosin Adeshokan.

  6. fictionlimbo avatar

    Nice!

  7. Unilaglss avatar

    Reblogged this on UnilagLss.

  8. Yahaya Hassan Taiwo avatar
    Yahaya Hassan Taiwo

    You honor me. Very nice compilation!

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