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 </div><p></p>What did you hear<br>
When they mounted the stage of yesterday<br>
To declare their promises on air?<br>
Was it change or chains?
<p>Maybe the lies of yesteryears<br>
Have deposited wax into our ears<br>
and hindered our hearing<br>
that we couldn’t differentiate change from chains.</p>
<p>Please let this accent be understood.<br>
Did we hear “we are working”<br>
or “we are walking”?<br>
Are we dear to your heart<br>
Or shares in your hat?</p>
<p>When we laid bare our complaints<br>
Did you say you have heard<br>
Or you have herd?<br>
Did you recover the loots or the lutes?<br>
Will you give us our rights or rice?<br>
Can you see our tears or tiers?<br>
Did we hear ” we’ll make corruption bitter ”<br>
Or “we’ll make corruption beat her” ?<br>
Did you promise to make lives better<br>
Or bind many with fetters?</p>
<p>Maybe the tongue twisted the truth<br>
Only time can get us to the root.<br>
These guys!<br>
Can we call this “Change in Disguise”?<br>
Is this what you call change?<br>
Herdsmen slaughtering souls rather than cows<br>
Only for us to hear whispers of ” Silent is Golden”.<br>
Is that a meaningful silent?</p>
<p>When will change come?<br>
When the price of fuel is more than one can bear<br>
as it equates a bottle of beer?<br>
Or as our Naira watch the Dollars<br>
mount upon the wings of our very own Eagle<br>
to soar high be called change or chains?</p>
<p>You feel not our pains<br>
Yet we see your gains.<br>
We heard of the fame<br>
That you made with our very own name.</p>
<p>Is this the promise of Change<br>
Or promise in Chains?</p>
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