1. <br /> <br />To your shame, Big Brothers, <br /> <br /> I am sorry! <br /> <br />You, like a Christmas goat <br /> <br />Tak’n to the abattoir, <br /> <br />parade yourselv’s before us on parties’ platforms, <br /> <br />canvassing to have our votes. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Behold you now, <br /> <br />making promises that travel to the sky, <br /> <br />where the Holy One has His Home! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Like an empty whirling wind, <br /> <br />fumbling before an impregnate cloud, <br /> <br />you ask for our votes, <br /> <br />which you need before you will be in vot’d; <br /> <br />with you chameleon humble hearts, <br /> <br />you stress points after points <br /> <br />as an African elephant would trumpet, <br /> <br />causing no earthquake. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />See and see you now, <br /> <br />humbly come to win our hearts <br /> <br />with your ever-sugar-coated-blabbering tongues! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />So Soon, you’ve forgot’n your million pledges, <br /> <br />made to us your wives before the altar of politics <br /> <br />in the eyes of the Chief Priest of election. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 2. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To us you pledge to provide good living, <br /> <br />like Him who creat’d things out of nothingness. <br /> <br />To us, new Garden of Eden is avow’d <br /> <br />where Hunger will avert her weird face. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Here now comes the new paradise, <br /> <br />that you these ruthless-ungrateful juggernauts <br /> <br />have to us brought! <br /> <br />Paradise of torture and of shame, <br /> <br />that pierces through our already nak’d marrows! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Lo we promise you, <br /> <br />the fool paradise of oppression <br /> <br />shall you in turn reap!<br /><br />Eche Ononukwe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/here-comes-the-new-paradise/
