How Did It Get This Bad
How did it get this bad!
Siblings quarreling and squabbling over inheritance
Bickering over who is better and more successful;
Killing each other
How did it get this bad!
Senior citizens treated with disdain, loathe and contempt
By younger folks
Empathy and sense of affection gone with the advent of civility
How did it get this bad!
Motorists would rather run over pedestrians
Than waste a minute in traffic
Hit and run drivers a plenty
How did it get this bad!
Widows ostracized, castigated, chastised,
Ripped off, molested and left high and dry
In-laws wanting a taste of the honey pie
How did it get this bad!
Young girls abort with reckless abandon
Ridding themselves of unwanted products
Of promiscuous expedition
Licentiousness on the prowl
How did it get this bad!
Electorates intimidated and coerced
Their votes bought for stipends and
Their futures jeopardized
Anarchy overruling good sense of judgment
How did it get this bad!
Political leaders spending more on guns
Than on food and citizen’s welfare
Taking lives; making orphans, multiplying widows
Altering the magnificent course of creation and
Ascribing it to‘unpreventable collateral damage’
How did it get this bad!
We annihilate migrants and call it xenophobia
We murder people of one ethnic group and call it cleansing
We set ablaze worship centres and call their ‘gods’ false
We kill members of other religions and call them infidels
HOW DID IT GET THIS BAD!
Copyright © Kevin Madu | Year Posted 2020
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