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A Graduate With No Future

A graduate with no future A promise was made from the start It was with words of hope We felt a future filled with prosperity From the hope we had with this words That was the motivation We gave all our hearts minds and energy We spent long years building up with the Lessons based from this words The schools was the only camp and There was the chosen ones to teach us From class to class Level to level University to office There is always this chosen one In front of us all this year's And with all they taught us They always end with same words like from beginning And this words are You young ones are the future leaders Of Africa A graduate with no future My age grades are above 40's Alot of us still can't breathe We are far from this future leaders And the more we struggle to get closer We start disappearing from the presence of the surface of our soil The same soil which gave us the hope of a better tomorrow Alot of us has given up Some many are currently doing What they never wish to do Just for survival Imagine a man who studied to be A dentist Ending up as a bike rider There's no hospitals to take them in for work Despite we need them Alot of us are highly disappointed With what our economy are becoming Is difficult to breath in our country presently Our hopelessness is truly currently our reality now In case you wondering why I chose to write about A graduate with no future

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