Hosni The Jailer Poem by Oluseyi Akinbami

Hosni the Jailer

This distance will not prevent your tyranny, if all Powers belongs to you
I will not call you a fool
But only these avoid critics
Right or wrong
Let a Poet be judged by error
And not by wicked hounding in Egyptian garrison of tyranny
What?
He wrote.
A caricature of your deeds
Are you guilty?
Speak for your self
Did you do it?
Answer the world
Or is Pharaoh Folly on innocent Joseph rejuvenated
The scribe is not a Pharisee,
And not an Israelite either
Why the mockery of power
Should we not scorn the Pharaohs when they err?
Vendetta is not the price of great men
Three years of vengeful response for Poetry and the poet
Then Herod, Nero, Pontius, and Hitler is back to Egypt