'Change happened without me' by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

“I am a coward of no nameI am a fool of sour fameFor I sat among idle menWhile a wolf ate the hen.”

Things had fallen apart:We saw the sages’ private partsDangling in public spaces. For a clown,Lucky, but shoeless, was the king of our town…I spat only whispers when they shouted “Buhari!”I had doubts, “How could one forget in a hurryThat there was a ‘Goodluck’, just yesterday,Who found Aso Rock after losing his wayWhile fishing in oily Bayelsa creeks?”So I whispered, tongue-in-cheek.

Yes, I ignored their calls for PVC –I said to me, “PDP has become APC.Why enroll my weary thumb for thoseBeasts that pluck the petals off our Rose?While our bloody palms clutch thorny stalks”So I said to myself when they brought voting talks.

Many thumbed…Now, Change rides on a horse.Hopeful hearts sing their voices hoarseThe General plots, we say “Hurry!Make the looters sorry!”“I will be hero of sour nameI will be patriot of no fameI will sit with guarding menThat wolf eat not our hen.”

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