Campaigns Poem by Tony Adah

They gave us knorr cubes, tin tomatoes
Rice, onions, vegetale oil
And they gave salt
Which was later added to our sores
When the elections were over.

What did they not give?
Just their children and their wives
The circle of gifts complete will be.

For what did they give these?
They gave them
In the purchase of the votes
From the gullible masses
For elections that will be won
And we will be forgotten.

The campaigns were replete with items
For stomach infrastructure
Rarely with any speech
To lift us to the sky in hope
This is the ritual
We go through every four years
Of our lives.