segun Johnson Ozique Poems

Sweetheart, you can go shop for the poor all you want
In fact, you may go global mountaineering whole year
Even go sighting and ardour the world in marathons
Or, camp all year in Kenyan choice-zoo to save the forest:
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With the ride in chariot of life so wobbly
I say; the one who rises
In the face of oppositions, of constrains,
With limitations and disasters as surely;
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The cats with the mantle of guards at the African giant jailhouse are in dispute
In a bloody tasty orgy of who is best fit for selection to steer the wheels;
Riding the cart in a new transition for another sentence for a four year term
And though none of them has precedential cart riding qualifications,
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Ours must be, of the most lamentable delusive generations
Mother earth has yet witnessed: For, we are as ever, so
Instituted with the notion of, the thinking, the adventure,
The unconscious pining for a more realistic life; of progress,
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Heart of West is a land with buried, earthly blessings
Of numeric metallic elements beyond silver or gold
Such beyond, richly flowing in deep red and black
Abundantly free flooding - goldenly sparkling too;
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Imagine you -who want to live forever, imagine
Weathering today’s strains and constrains
In hope for a pregnant tomorrow and tomorrow
Expectation hinged on another day, a better day
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If by some grace someday we all realise
With an inner light, strength and sight
That this flesh and bones we so worship
Is only like a workman’s tool, a vehicle
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Do tell, hangman of people, how, a whole nation be so cowed by you
You, just one; and your wretched zombies, contaminated by taste,
You, an envenomate that should be avoided like affliction, yet rules
Obviously, it is the guns; your tool, the supreme control of your depravity?
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I have pondered how to tell this to the world?
How best to make them listen?
How to make them see?
To make them know?
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Our present leaders this of the world may not be human: can’t be
They surely can’t for wanting to stay in power or come back again
And again even as qualities to guidance they thought to inspire is wanting
Still they stay hugged to headship like all dead-weight bad bed fellows;
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