Message From The Citizens Poem by Tony Adah

If I ever live tomorrow
Because my entrails mew like a cat
I will rise up and speak up
To my Oga at the top
Do not tell him I am the one
That was sent to deliver the message.
He will see me
And he will know I am the one
I will shout the citizens' message
Into his battered ears
He will smile but he will be mute
He will see me
For he is only deaf and can see
I will try my sign language
Touch my tummy and push it
To my spine and look frail and groan
That's the message the citizens sent
Everyone is hungry and dying
I will look up to the sky
Point my finger high up there
To where the prices of wares
Have gone.
These two messages I will leave
With our Oga at the top
He will be too busy at the avengers
Looking for a way to revenge,
He will look at the Jagaban
Busy a phone call from Ekiti
Call to the folk in Kaduna
To avail his girlfriend for
Some baptism of employment
The next thing in his mind
We can not tell.