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Making Sense of It All

Please help me in my confusion 
Come to my rescue 

Do not leave me sitting all alone
On this lonely beach of abandonment 

Help me my brothers
Help me  my compatriots

Help me you all men of good will
To make a modicum of sense

From all disconcerting confusion around me
My country has become an enigma

Difficult to fathom and rescue
From self inflicted contradictions

We were in the abyss of despondency 
We were in dire need 

To wriggle out from Economic strangulation 
Kidnapping and banditry 

General insecurity and insurgency 
Glaring leadership failure
 
And like furious flash flood 
We trooped out with hope in our hearts

With one goal in mind
To cast our votes and make a change

Particularly the youth eager
To put their trust once more

In a system bereft of any trust
And like a Gale of disappointment

Our hope came cascading down 
To the abyss of disillusionment 

And cacophony of claims and denials
And waiting for the unseen hands of destiny 

To steer her from annihilation 
To the habitual and perpetual state of  inertia

Copyright © Augustine Ogoegbunam Eseke

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