"Envisaged leaders" by Udechukwu, Promise Chinonso

Almost immediately, I saw the visions of our heroes

covered in attractive guilt

I became power inclined because of my phantasm

With falsified proofs from the obese starved men,

The crusade began and we trudged all over the nation

With farm produce a lot of citizens were beguiled

And the breeze of oblivion shook the hearts of the

native rulers

As they sold their nation in shekels and silver much

more than thirty

And all finally accepted my gospel of an incorrupt

leader

Now the sun frowns and bemoans my regime

I am a king oppressed by the crown

The sinister demand their eternal pay

Retracted by my cabinets, I became a puppet.

Are the days of loyalty and honesty far gone?

Corruption exuberant, in victory

Like my predecessors, I stole a worthless sceptre

As my policies were waved for their selfish desires

Just yesterday, I saw another Joseph shout “Vote me

for change”

Udechukwu, Promise Chinonso is a 200-level student of the Department of Economics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.