Useless Man Poem by Olusegun Akanbi

How can a man be as useless as he?
Failing to differentiate between realities from fantasy
How it is and how it was meant to be
Because we are
Who we are
Ruled by devils
And led by vampires
Who will stop at nothing to create their evil empires?
No right
No wrong
Just the mighty and strong
Freedom is a hoax played by men
To be truly free
Life must come to an end
Because nothing is free
In the world of men
Though the Wise Maker made it so
Humans said no
A useless man is he who has no money to feed
Because we care not for another due to our greed
A useless man is he who has no home to go
And there is nobody he knows
A useless man is he who has no clothes on his back
And keeps all his belongings in a sack
He is hated by the world
Because he lacks worldly things
Nobody will take him back
So he prays for whatever life brings
Educated with no hope of getting a job
So he tries to stop being useless
By contemplating how to rob
With no one to help him
Except his invisible God.
So he prays hard to his Lord
With no answer
Or he did not know his signs
Then he turns his hopes to a man
A mere mortal cast from the sand
In the furnace of life
A politician
Little did he know
That a politician is like magician
They play tricks on your mind
He only tries to paint everything beautiful like a beautician
So open your eyes if you’re blind
For he only preaches hope and run after his own purse
And at times he could be worse.
Useless man persevere
For one day you will be useful
As long as you’re here
You have nothing to fear
For the world is a common place of merchants
And they will soon realize that everything
Is not an item of trade
For all that glitters is not gold
And those precious things will fade
For the human soul
Serve a special goal
And we’re no goldfish in a bowl
To be possessed by his owner
Until the hours past
And finds true freedom at last