I AM THE POEM BY RAJI AYOMIDE OLAITAN KING OF RHYMES

Ayomide Raji

Biography: Raji Ayomide Olaitan, known as King of Rhymes, is a Nigerian poet, spoken word artist, author, animator, and certified drone pilot. He grew up in the jungle city known as ajegunle. He is the Founder/CEO of King of Rhymes Poetry Hub and TechRise Coding Hub, platforms dedicated to empowering young creatives and training youths in digital and tech skills. He serves as the Global Teenage Tribe Leader of the African Writers Tribe, where he mentors and inspires young writers across Africa. His work blends poetry, storytelling, animation, and digital creativity to deliver powerful, emotional, and visually engaging art. King of Rhymes is a voice, a movement, and a rising force in African creativity. Subscribe. Listen. Feel. Rise.

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Sunday 7 December 2025

I AM THE POEM BY RAJI AYOMIDE OLAITAN KING OF RHYMES

I stand here today,

Not just as a voice,

But as a universe vibrating in syllables.

Call me Yoruba

Because my words dance like talking drums,

Every line a bata beat,

Every pause a proverb.

Call me Igbo

Because my rhymes trade like kola nuts,

Every stanza a market square of wisdom.

Call me Hausa

Because my verses ride like horses in the North,

Strong, steady, carrying the weight of tradition.

I am not one tribe

I am the tongue where tribes meet.

I am the rhythm where cultures agree.

Even football knows my name

Real Madrid, Arsenal,

Two clubs fighting like metaphors in my chest.

I pass words like midfield magic,

I shoot bars like penalties,

I score goals in the net of your memory,

And the crowd

The crowd is applause breaking like thunder.

Science too is poetry

Listen:

My heart is a drum powered by chemistry,

Pumping metaphors through veins of biology,

My thoughts spark like neurons in physics,

My dreams orbit futures in astronomy.

Even gravity can't pull my voice down,

Even silence can't break my sound.

Call me the atom of art

Because I split verses like fission,

And release energy enough

To light a continent.

I rhyme like mathematics,

Equation of survival balancing hope and struggle.

I drop metaphors heavy as iron,

Yet light as helium when hope rises.

And still

I am history’s DJ,

Scratching records of tradition into beats of tomorrow.

I am culture’s scientist,

Mixing formulas of old and new

Until they explode like experiments of freedom.

I am football’s poet,

Dribbling past despair,

Scoring goals of joy,

And lifting trophies carved from hope.

Do not box me into subjects

I am literature and laboratory,

Tribal marks and telescopes,

Market chants and mathematics,

Arsenal jerseys and Real Madrid victories,

I am every angle of the prism,

Bending light into colors of possibility.

This is not just poetry

This is wordplay with purpose,

This is rhyme with resistance,

This is culture braided with science,

This is Africa,

This is the world,

This is me

And I say to you,

I am not just a poet.

I am the poem.

And as long as I am breathing,

This performance will never end.

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I AM THE POEM BY RAJI AYOMIDE OLAITAN KING OF RHYMES

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