The Sculpture's Clock Poem by Tony Adah

My country has some effigies
Sitting somewhere in the centre
Of the land,
I will carve and put at their Gatehouse,
A national debt clock
In it's qoutidian tick
It will reel the red numbers
Of my country's account
Before the very eyes of
The pilfers of our Commonwealth
A generation of greed maniacs
And the fiscally imprudent lot.
These effigies
Who ran and won election in absentia
Feeding bugs in Kirikiri
Or lying convalescent
In foreign hospitals.
This clock
I will carve
It will raise an alarm
At any depleting moves
But this motley crowd will feign
Ignorance padding our national budget
Their ears will be muffed
By greed.
They will be deaf to ruins
Terrorists and militants inflict
These are the people
My country breeds,
I will carve this clock and put it
At the gateway to
Our National Assembly.