LETTER TO A COUNTRYMAN.

Dear Countryman,
I pen you out in shame and distress,
What our leaders has lead us into.
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The country is ruined,
The city's Empty.
Sounds of tribulations
From all and sundry.
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Dear countryman,
Our heroes are dead!
The heroines silenced.
Obatala seems to be asleep,
Ifa has being defiled!
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Our hope is lost!
No Escape route is feasible.
Our doom has come,
We are finished!
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Our succour has turned silent
Life has turned sober
Our Milk has turned sour,
The honey's stony.
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Dear Countryman,
Shame unto us,
Our swords are blunt!
Bullets has evaded our Guns.
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Dear countryman,
Life here is unbearable,
Our robe has being stripped,
We're naked!
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Dear countryman,
Our weapons are useless,
But of the last I write to you.
Our pen!

I_am_Emmanuel.
©2017.