February
7, 2011
We who love to beg hail thee!
Our nation’s guttural call we obey
Please! Please! Please!
Gi’me! Gi’me! Gi’me!
A bereft beggar nation begging for
bread that it can bake
Complacent indigence of the mind and
spirit
We beg
Begging bowl clutched in two well
manicured hands
Dual tribed beggars of necessity and
choice
Confluenced in a shameless display
of poverty in the midst of plenitude
Our begging diminishing the
productivity of the productive class
Grovelling for a visa to Eldorado, a
job, a spouse
Sexy students selling sex and ménage
a quartos
Assiduously, since we have made an
art of begging
A home grown vulgar supplication for
alms
Not Tithe here, not Zakat, just
begging
Our treasury purloined while we
droll for titbits
Youths earnestly asking for inept
continuity
An offering of incompetence in
perpetuity
Down on our knees we beg
As we are ground and trampled into
the earth’s clammy bosom
Jekwu Ozoemene©2009
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