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<p style="text-align: center;">Once upon a time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In a country I call mine</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There rose a broom party</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fed by change clothed sympathy</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">An entity of old wine in a new skin</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A unity of souls, so selfishly mean</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Cobbled together by a sole interest</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To grab the treasury’s crest</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">They swore to fight corruption</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The very thing draped over their body like a lotion</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Not surprised by sweet things they say</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Worried about how crooked their way</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">With the common man at the bitter end</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They label it their predecessor’s trend</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now we know the truth untold</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How a blend of cluelessness and hypocrisy put the nation’s future on hold</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We’ll never fall for their bait again</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Once bitten twice makes the mind sane</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Next time they start crying for our vote</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We’ll use it as a door out of their sinking boat .</p>
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ONCE UPON A TIME by Uchenna Odukwu
