So Sorry A Sight Poem by Tosin Abegunde

So Sorry A Sight.

As days dissolve into nights
And seasons chameleon to centuries,
Our adamant hegemonic leopards
Have their skins as of yesterday, unrinsed
Despite our inundating wails for change.


Among, are the a-loot-er come-raids
Who, in the execu-thief council, turn scavengers;
Make law breakers of our law makers;
Judiciously joist our resources abroad;
Leaving us to the perilous lashes of hunger.


'Police is your friend'
A school of thought entreats
But in my little cloudy mind,
The flashes, thunder and rumblings
Of their historic rain of anguish reverberates:
'Teacher don't teach me nonsense! '

In our Parliament of idiots
Are h-onion-rable senathugs:
Dignified representa-thieves
Who rent their agbada regalia at will
In defense of their pockets,
What a parlia-mental-rians we have!


In this uglification spree,
The fortress of the negro land
Ingloriously glories around shoulder high.
I wish she wears not herself out now
For she's ageing and would leave not
Her domicile pigs to their wallowing
Lest this so sorry a sight lingers!