Everything Is Always Wrong Poem by Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu

Everything Is Always Wrong



For bills we pay, yet never served but constantly put in darkness;
And when a pole falls or wires bridge,
We are forced to contribute for it repair
For if we don't or don't have to,
We remain in darkness inside darkness.
Yet, we pay our taxes
And we get no benefit
For we end up again paying bodyguards
For no government would assure us
Even a boys scout security
So we are all robbed at gun points
Or kidnapped for a ransom
Out of our saving sweats
Or our Eves raped, even to death.
No fruit at Eden except the one at the centre
No bread or wine at breakfast or dinner
Only stones for lunch.
Our roads are worse than roads to hell
Because those we elected to do it
Eased the devil of the trouble of being the devil
By simply just being the devil to us.
Our four walls have become a shadow upon herself, lost in her old glory to be remembered only in a nostalgic feeling.
Everyone who goes through, pass out remaining just the same.
There is water everywhere,
still there is no water to drink
Let alone to bathe.
We have a land of plenty but for our fathers'
This land is but a desert
Only that, the greens are seen
But way beyond reaches
Except only by the riches.
Practically, no sane man can make it
Because there is no good man
Everyone is making it
Just because there is no question.

-Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu, The Devil's Advocate

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