Do You Now Know THEM?

Their frivolous wrangulation(s) has played mute

Heroes past, counts fifty

Reminding us of those promises kept with disdain

That, i counted flinging my clock through the window

Their wallet flat as “ghana-must-go” , filled with foreign currencies

Preaching we are the giant of Africa

Whence, our mothers’ are dressed with stress

Our daughters addressed with rape, maligned and ridiculed

They mare the orphans, maim the widow, made all homeless

My father’s mushroom house has been brought down

Because the intend to build pain and agony

And they call it “urban reconstruction”

They denied our votes in public

Tearing off our confidences and rights in despair

For how long must we be pained?

Blood in the pipeline seizes to clock nine

They have tailored my ideas to suit theirs

Okonkwo said am the leader of tomorrow

Little did i know, he meant, class prefect

Nigeria is not for the young, its reprimanded

Salient silence has echoed our whisper

Our voice had been sold for meagreness coins

Even on tiny truth, lies are conspicuous

How long must we be deceived?

Deceit!!!! You can now go to bed

Am putting off the candle light

What else are the remains of the life?

Betrayed by these canker worms of humanity

Death seems to be sweet

When nation building has proven hard and difficult

But, whom shall the night take along with its blind?

Them them, they know themselves

I know them, don't you know them?

They are the ones with heavy fat cheque(s) and empty skulls

Bloody fools and mediocre(s)

Do you now know them?

Composed by Nwaeze Chidoziem