We Shall Vote With Our Consciences
" WE SHALL VOTE
WITH OUR
CONSCIENCES"
Let us cast our minds
back to '1983' massacre
When inking our thumbs
were as inking our
death-warrants
We exercised our
franchise in peace
But the result was
given in pieces
We roared against it !!
Our roars were
silenced by gun
Then,
Roads were littered with
human-bones
And frozen bloods in
our drainages
Homes were razed to
flame
The hands of Akure
sons were drumming
-the broken-wall in
sorrow
And her daugthers
were dancing in anguish
To the feast of war
Today,
We shall vote with our
Consciences
To elect our favourite
not an alien
-Who came from
beyond to rule our
within
My people!
Help me to tell 'PDP'
We can no longer stay
under their teared-
umbrella
Where our heads
expose to sun's rays
Tell 'ACN' brooms can
no Longer sweep away
our banes
Tell 'LP' it's done whats
good
Our consciences'll say
maybe 'LP' to stay or go
All I know is that;
We shall vote with our
consciences.
Poet: Adesitimi Taiwo.
Copyright © Adesitimi Taiwo Damilola | Year Posted 2012
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