Evans Nartey Poet Free verse

If they were us

They would have clenched their fists in rage if they were us 
If they were us, they would  have squirmed with complaints 

Because they are comfortable, 
Our plights appears less bothering 
Less bothering because we would have done same , if we were them . 

Their promises are just sugar-coated words , 
After actualizing their conquests, 
their goals,they make us worse 

Worse by extorting our last pennies 
pennies from our wretched,messed up labor activities .

Education being the key to success, 
now seems to rather lock up and delay dreams 
because, years meant for development are just spent 
Spent on lessons and challenges that are not even applicable in the future
these lessons just stress minds that are already stressed since gestation 

Fingers should not point
Tongues should not blame
Our minds I believe are like joints 
The black melanin seems to jnject into this flame 

This flame of selfishness, ethnocentrism and embezzlement 
Where one belly desires to devour the meal of a whole populace 
The populace that forgets about their own development 
But focuses on snatching roles of the highly placed 

Now ask yourself, if we were them , will they wish they were us ?



                                                    - evans_writes.

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