Your Excellency Poem by Charles Kanyuga

Your excellency
This, with all due respect
Is my address
the excellency fails
not desirable any more
as in the day we were behind you
believed your preaching
we saw your experience
now only your name remains

you now are slumber
in the envelope of dignity
as they uproot what is planted
our laws you are above
yet the innocent lie like logs
left to lot by the road side
while the sniffer dogs
can't sniff any more

the wraggling wears out
you and the prime
cares only who rules
as our maize is trumpled upon
we're still in tents
sleeping on the floods
we who backed you up
we who believed in you
you have failed
all that are with you

this marriege thought we could settle
but still can't hold the centre
that pole is weak
the house will go down
don't take us backward
we were moving forward

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