It Is Us Against Us Poem by Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu

You too, my brother?
Not by blood, but
By social stratification
I have what you have
You lack what i lack
They have what we lack
And don't have what we have
You and me, share everything in common
I have no water in my neighbourhood
You have no electricity in your neighbourhood
I have no school to educate myself
Because in your neighbourhood,
They've ruin the systems with strike
And lockdown... and corruption and lies
Because their children are either schooling
Abroad, or in private expensive schools
Which we cannot afford.
I have no job
And you are not employ either
We tried be in business
But taxes and governmental
harassment threw us out;
No food for we both,
And we can't do anything to improve
Because those, unlike us, are in charge.

What i have not, you haven't either;
Yet, i am the one you rob
You are the one i kidnap
I am the one you cheat
You are the one I rape
Just why? I wouldn't know
It ought to be we against them
But now, it is we against we
Why they laugh at us.
They are our enemies
Pathetic, we think them our friends
And we, our enemies!
It is not 'God, save us from them'
But, God, save us from us.

-Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu, Deadman Alive