POETRY: A LOST DESTINY

November 19, 2022
3 years ago

A LOST DESTINY AND A FRACTURED HOPE

A young boy who finds himself in a scattered world,

Full of inconveniences; misunderstandings all overboard.

Right from the community to the church,

Everything is blunt and disjointed.


He misses wise counsel from home,

He goes round the community for redress,

But finds a rotten phase more than his home.

He plods within the reach of his country for success.

He goes to meet men masking themselves with political apparels and dancing to political gimmicks.

They distort the country's values and uphold their party colours.



Sad but so it is.


He trots to the church for moral support,

Only for him to walk into the church and its cohorts.

A multitude in-fighting with no leader.

Two factions birthed from a rich home,

Battling for ceremonial seats at the expense of peace and unity.


Now the home is broken,

He refuses to heed advice.

He cannot say proverbs.


The community is shaking to hold the traditional seat.

Two other factions fighting to win power.

People who have been together for centuries and known peace,

Today, they are firing guns at each other and sabotaging the future.


The nation is no more in the name of rule of law.

It is at the helm of nation wreckers,

Lacing their boots for political banters and bracing themselves up for corruption titles.

For so many years, we have come this far

But we haven't gone far.