Poetry. What do we do?

in poetry •  7 years ago 

What do we do??

  1.   Seconds turn into minutes
        Minutes into hours
        Hours into days
        Days to weeks
        Then months
        Years!!!
        And I keep wondering what the future
        The coming generation will be like
        The young they say shall grow
        The youth are the leaders of tomorrow  
        Our tomorrow  lies in the hands of the young     
        generation 
        But don't they also say,  that the past Dosent matter? 
        That It is gone and cannot be changed? 
        And that the future depends on the present ;
        What is being done  now.  
        Then I ask a simple question people;
        What is being done now?? 
    
  2.    For if now,  in the present,  there is still corruption,   
        manipulation,  in equality of the law,  frustration 
        among the masses
        Agitation of the poor,  
        Destruction of the economy by our so called
        "Political elites"- looters of the economy.  
        Oil vandalism and brutalism 
        Kidnapping,  tax evasion 
        Healthcare in the mud
        Our schools,  universities and institutions in terrible  
        conditions 
        Frustration among the youth,  leading to cultism, 
        drug abuse 
        Lack of employment,  causing robbery and terrorism 
    
  3.    Ignorance!  the worst disease ever!! 
        For our people really do suffer from lack 
        of knowledge 
        Lack of wisdom 
        Ignorance
        The poor are being exploited everyday 
        Elections being rigged.  The ignorant fellow;
        assisting to get peanuts from those seeking evil
        What about our brothers in the north? Shooting 
        and killing themselves for 'no just cause'
        Shedding and wasting the blood of the innocent
        Innocent cries I hear,  innocent babies loosing their 
        Fathers,  women being raped,  mothers burying their 
        Sons! 
        My heart bleeds,  every time I hear of the sad news
        of terrorism 
        For the fight is not needed.  
        Our people really do perish for lack of knowledge 
        So then I ask,  What do we do?
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