Spoilers Poem by Chris Jibero

Our hurriedly erected edifice
Brimming with treasure
Neatly laid by benevolent spirits
Is brazenly despoiled
And the spoils recklessly spoilt
By a consuming cult
Of competitors sporting agbada
And khaki
Who bring us lurid laurels
From their unsung Olympic

Our unfaithful fathers
Have abdicated
Their responsibilities to us
Their unloved wards
But pamper the offsprings
Of their cheating lovers
Who shall call none
Of them Daddy
Despising their great party
As they shamelessy scramble
For our delectable dish
As greedy ravens and lick
Their soiled fingers
Like spoilt children
Surrounding a benevolent basin
Of sumptuous charity ration
Unmindful of tomorrow and watchers

Our yesterday was squandered
Our today is being quartered
Like a nanny-goat owned
By a pack of famished
Wolves and being plucked
By avid hands and devoured
By insatiable mouths like
The fruits of a communal
Mango tree standing alone
In a village square
Owned by all
But actually owned by none

Our yesterday and today are gone
And seemingly have paved our way
For a gaunt and kwashiokored pay
In amala and ewedu hearts
But huge like a mature domesticated
African elephant it stands
In that of those man enough
To tell our reckless parents
Enough!

(c) Chris Jibero.2007.