Are We Ashamed? Poem by Kctony Xtopher Nkwocha

Though a shame for such a land
my country is shameless.
A land losing its people
to alien illiteracy.
My country so richly blessed
wallow in cognitive underdevelopment.
The grants of our FATHER
have residence in the pockets of a few.
Schools are unsheltered
market stalls- open like dug graves;
windowless, doorless, lacking in standard
Teachers remain unpaid.
Pupils remain untaught.
Lecturers resort to handing out,
sorting to maintain equilibrium.
All, portents of our difficulties.
Some lecturers are moralistic hypocrites
motion pictures to students.
Displaying negatively what they teach
a complete hindrance to education,
if it is knowledge-character transmission
then, shame on us.