Yakubu Damilola

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Emptiness
- a ne'er ending blackness
A defining paradigm of ignorance
Big-barrel bellies
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Emptiness
- a ne'er ending blackness
A defining paradigm of ignorance
Big-barrel bellies
-gallivanting around the lush balconies of power
-all filled empty
They carry their weighty nothingness
Celebrating another victory won
Mercilessly milking masses dry
Naivety
-today he is locked in
Dank, dingy cells of impoverished faces
At least they fought
-but what good is a battle, if defeat was its main purpose.
What say ye poundless peasants?
Do your memories fail you?
Why place something as frail as hope in stained hands?
You allow them milk a few pounds more
For the hope of a better tomorrow
But when will a Leopard change his spots?
'Neon lights in our homes' they say
But where lies the current to power it?
In their murky offshore accounts?
They say our repressed lives will finally sing merrily
But they provide no instruments
Making a madrigal out of our sonorous lives
I simply look on...
Praying, perhaps a prayer against my sight
-that somehow I be proved wrong.

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