Sunday, February 20, 2011

Poem: PILLORIED TO THE FAME OF SHAME By Okee Igboegbunammadu-Onenulu




PILLORIED TO THE FAME OF SHAME

Wind of change is blowing everywhere
Across Arab world and Africa
The baton pass'd from Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria
And the Change is facing the man in Libya
Know him the truth
Can he address his root?

We wait -good and bad alike
As the protesters strike 
Giving him no room
But room enough to roam

Wind of change is blowing across Africa
And I wonder'd a little while -why not in Nigeria?
But the one we want in here
Is not what they have right there

Ours is simple yet very complex
A select few hopeless
Astride Party, Tongue and Religion
Use the three for our sedition

Politics of the three is the goal
Used, deployed or put on the roll
Vanity is goaded and read
On hearts and canvass thread 

So Nigeria's case is not a man
Much on a ruling kingdom or his clan
It's mainly on the many few men with one plan
Scheming greed the commonwealth how to pan

 Doing nothing by the minutes to justify pay
And every hour takes our sacrificial hay
And every day ferry home elephantine takeaway
Above the take-home of a progressive day!  

Let the People rise against them
Take Injury as the angst theme
Or, how can you sit lame
Pilloried to the fame of shame?



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  1. Gold12:12 AM, February 22, 2011

    Many of inglorious African leaders seem to have short memory -where are their brothers -Idi Amin, Obote, Ahidjo, Megitsu Mariam, Samuel Doe, Bokasa, IBB, Abacha? After Libya, pls we need to ask the likes of Campore what he is still doing in Burkinafaso. Time is that even in Nigeria revolution of blood is possible.
    I urge all Nigerians who go to various polling centers in the coming April elections to record all events of rigging or manipulations. As for the courts and corrupt judges, we assure them that not even H-E-L-L can compete Nigeria's furry.

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