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 </div><p></p>The lines tracing the sacred lawn to where love resides<br>
now broken on the head of humanity with darkness<br>
Where wars and bombs could see through<br>
The hollows struck and shadowed by mean beings<br>
To secure sick silence at the other end where prognosis<br>
Is belittled by faded today and abetted by stained yesterday.
<p>The circle where jury circles like a moving bicycle<br>
Now derailed on the pierced axis by arrows of favouritism<br>
Travelling with the speed of light into jungle judgements<br>
Where sorrow is left on masses’ brow with lawless blow<br>
Making flowing tears glow on the plight we nurse daily<br>
To form our cyclical living into anguished angle.</p>
<p>Holy lies have thrust hope’s veins again on trust with vain<br>
Laying on the high ill hill where only whiff of change<br>
Can heal the nauseous sore graced with prickly mirage<br>
Beneath our skins where misfortune is the blood<br>
That swims to the joint where despair collides as cells<br>
Producing anguish mixed with sweats of bruised innocence.</p>
<p>Silly season of sorrowful sirens<br>
Invaded the silent streets of raw dreams<br>
With the bones and bloods of our brothers<br>
Where possibility to breathe seconds to come shivers<br>
Under the roofless prognosis of what today’s axis holds<br>
Behind the punctured culture where change is a tattered norm.</p>
<p>Thumbs that do spit truth now made dumb<br>
By the spell of false bells banging deceitful voices<br>
Into eardrums quietly filled with corrupt noises<br>
Of happenings which wrapped history with bombing tales<br>
In our pounding heart which are no longer untold to the unborn<br>
For they already perceived the fumes from heaven.</p>
<p>Trade saw currency dropping the values she carried<br>
Centuries ago on the borders of bothered quarters<br>
Where a Naira’s equivalence there triple hundreds here,<br>
For beggars are lodgers at those burdened borders,ask them!<br>
Only if the whiff from their hairy cliff<br>
Allows you take an oxygen which represents a worthy nation.</p>
<p>Where are those that preached about transformation<br>
Just to redeem us with condemnation on derisive pulpits?<br>
Where are those brooms we also perceive brought lies<br>
Not booms to sweep our filthy rooms littered with doom?<br>
Now listen!<br>
What we want is not your change but changed state of mind<br>
Towards our dying fate,<br>
As we cry under the solemn voices of bereaved tears.</p>
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