Discombobulated?
My first essay to the world
Which my sane Seneca fostered
Ushered in solicitude and sorrow
Their words waxed my weariness out
This their ways wearily replaced

From all points reckoned
To Geography I felicitatious
Regards received for
Effusions well-weighed
About our future and polity
As a failure stationed
In saddled stagnation
Gloom and doom
So with high hope and openness
I accepted to belong
In our group
Oracles and bards
Abound no doubt
From life's all walks
We boast the best of men
And the bluest of stockings
Our ambience is fraught
With the famous
And our milieu melted with learning
Like others I voiced
My thoughts
And noticed
Older analysts
Showed their impressions
By sprangling my idealism
With weak realism
And sickening responses
To the imperatives of my
Samaformism and universal vision
They preach the hope
Inferior to their trust
And mocked the justice
That distinguish their all
With their optimum pessimism
And active passivity
Perhaps their idealism
Disappointments eroded
Or rat-mindedness ignited
Whatever the case
They are murdering our cause
Like ferocious beasts
They speak and act hate
Mutual disrespect and
Fatal personality bashing
And intellectual assassination
Resentment and rancour
Form our courtesy
At the forum
Saints united by good
Are enraptured
In evil culture
The bravest of us mix
Bravery with arrogance
And mistake wisdom
For infinite infallibility
And attack with wicked
Statements to offer
Omnipotent P O I N T S
Everyday we debate
Our district's dangers
But never reach
A consensus because we
Abhor others' guts
At all time
The oppressors maintain
Their decorum in planning
And servicing their
Fascist visions
They are one
With their amoeboid perfidies
As the prospects of our country
We are worse than our enemies
Morals divorce learning
And learning unworthy
Of our strict mental sickness
Of our heroic ignorance
Of our senseless scholarship
We are above evil
And incapable of good
We are greater than autocracy
But cannot midwife democracy
What if we cannot?
Change this planet
Shall we regard our legacies?
Is this forum
For whiling away boredom?
Are we here for supercilious
Display of knowledge?
My 'childish' desire
And plea holds that
We be practically dedicated
And slaughter our
Egos to aid
The quick recovery
Of our sick species!
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© June 2005 By Mankind Olawale Oyewumi