My Country People

Is this what you dreamt?
Where are your troths to us?
Is this the mandate our heroes and heroines left for us?
Oh! No. What a country!
Everything is upsidedown
You have enough good roads;
There people die untimely.
You accoutre power to near and far countries
Candles and lamps for the poor;
Generator for the rich as sources of power
You're a falcon to your subjects,
Is that your portfolio?
Turning your back to your people;
Their blood you use to wash.

Crying is their happiness
Marginalization is their work,
Slaying their occupation,
Blood for water; distress as food,
Inequity becomes the order of the day.
Fair hearing you said,
But, when we talk, we are jailed.
Democratism you said; Caesarism you do.
What a country!
After graduation, you become a cyclist
Employment is for their families, relatives and friends
Favouritism and nepotism is in apogee
Where are we going to?
What is our fate my country people?


Written by Chris Chukwuemeka Mbah
      (Spark)