THE FAMILY YOU CREATE - The Love Script: Naija Style (spokenWord)

 

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(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates the stage. You step forward with confidence and a knowing smile.)

Yo! Lagos! Can I get a resounding "Oshey!"

(Pause for audience response)

Tonight, we're talking love. Real love. The kind that sweet pass puff-puff, the kind that strong pass agidi jollof. Forget the Instagram filters and the borrowed lifestyles. We're diving deep into the heart matter, Naija style!

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(Slight pause, engaging the audience with your eyes)

See, this life, e fit throw you corner kicks wey you no expect. One minute you dey PRINGLE with your HOT ART BODY – feeling yourself, glowing like NEPA light after dem don fix am. Next minute, you dey wonder, "Where the AMIGO dem dey? Who go MINGLE with this fine fine person?"

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But make you shine your eye well well o! Because plenty people out there dey PING you, but their heart dey colder than harmattan morning. Dem go be COLD HEART BUDDY, trust me. Their agenda? Life fit MEAN GO if na only money be your MAIN GOAL. Dem go use sweet mouth and flashy things to blind you.

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(Move with the rhythm of your words)

But you? You gotta know your worth! Self-love as SINGLE is the ultimate power. That kin love go set the foundation, so when partner's love come, e go just SING YOU, resonate deep inside like Ebenezer Obey on a Sunday morning. No let them LOST IN cheap love, that kind sweet EROS wey just dey STRING YOU along.

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Shine your eye, I say! No ignore those red flags wey dey wave like LASTMA officer on a busy road. If something dey STINK YOU, abeg, no POKE NOSE inside! Because that kind LUSTING, that fire wey no get foundation, e go make BITTER ERRORS STING YOU like pepper soup wey enter your eye.

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(Build the intensity)

FIND the one before you carry wedding gown go altar! Make your GOOGLE no SEARCH again for "true love" when you don become Mrs. Somebody and you still dey SINGLE in your heart. SEE true love with your own two eyes before you say "I do"! Make your GOGGLE no dey look outside like say better market dey wey you wan MINGLE after dem don tie the knot.

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No rule say 'sim one' na MTN o! Use GLO if na him GLOW your current situation. No stick to any SCENE GLUE because everybody dey do am. Broken courtship no be broken marriage, my sister, my brother! BRAKE am like broken English – the meaning dey clear even if the grammar no correct. TINGLE as the THING GO, learn your lesson, move on!

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(Change the tone to something more tender)

Tie the knot with who makes your spirit UP NUTS, wild and free! That person wey dey lift you higher, wey dey see your value. As long as e no dey treat you like GROUNDNUT – anyhow, anyhow, just cracking you open for his own enjoyment. You're KIDDING yourself if you no dey think FAMILY! ADULT TIME dey fly o, and before you know it, KIDS THYME go dey play after the BOLT AND NUT of commitment don lock una together.

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Be HONEY enough to admire the SUGAR – the sweetness, the attraction. But no be too HORNY till you blind to the CANE AND A BELL – the warning signs, the character flaws. Marriage na for DOG and CAT wey don decide say domestic VIOLENCE no be option, irrespective of the VOW LENSE wey dem use to see their future.

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(The rhythm becomes more urgent)

But hear me now! To DIE FORCE of love with COLOUR OF DECEIT, e dey pave way for DIVORCE to become the CORE LAW on THE SEAT! No marry because FATHER dey push love FARTHER than e wan go. No marry because MOTHER wan sign love's MURDER with her expectations. No marry for PITY, make love no enter PIT wey no get bottom. And definitely, abeg o, no marry out of DEBT for love wey no get DEPTH!

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No SELFISH enter INTO MARRIAGE with the mindset to begin SELL BEEF OUT OF MAR RAGE! Marriage na for the SELFLESS – those wey balanced enough, wey no dey think of them SELF LESS all the time. It's for the angry Man wey fit control his MACHO, and the hurt lady wey fit hold her tongue and no let words her MOUTH CHEW destroy everything.

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(The tone shifts to a more reflective one)

When their VIBES MATCH YOURS, my people, that's just the beginning o! That no mean say love don MATURES finish. Wait till them STEP on your TOES – and trust me, dem go step! It's when both imperfect people WALK in perfect MARCH, when una ready to put in the WORK to stand on your TOES for each other, that's when you know.

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If na just to COME EAT SEX CHOP BODY, my friend, you dey prone to drown inside that SEX SEA. The SCENE of love without COMMITMENT? E go make you COMMIT MINT SIN, for real! Steady PLEASURE dey sweet, but you gotta be ready to endure PRESSURE. Stealthy HICCUPS go happen, because marriage ain't no HOOKUP!

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(Bring it back with force)

The REAL VERSE, as you REEVE ASS in HEALTH, is that your RIVERS go never REVERSE WEALTH – the real wealth of a loving home. The UNIT THING in life na CELL – small but mighty. Na why UNITY dey SELL pass SELENSE! I know your SHOES be your comfort zone, but sometimes, you gotta borrow small CELE SENSE.

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Put THE FEET in your partner's SHOE! Try to understand their wahala, so DEFEAT no go spoil una SHOW. TUFACE music show sweet, but in marriage, spouses gotta FUSE TWO PHASES till one face SHOW – unity!

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(The final lines, spoken with conviction)

More like YOU plus YOU equals YOUs – a brand new WE! And YO! That is US! Literally put two single "U" letters together – that equals "too" to US! We play life with a single pad until married, but the real fun depends on WHO YOU PLAY WITH – that's US!

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The family you create, that's your masterpiece! E more important than the family you come from. So abeg o, don't replay the same old movie, "US"! Write your own script!

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(Hold the pose, look at the audience with intensity)

Think about it! Talk about it! Let's hear your comments! What's your take on this love matter, Naija style?

(Lights fade out)

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