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POEM: "Wicked generation" by Henry Chinweuba


WICKED GENERATION

Always they told tales of their youth
Quality everything, education enticing
Breakfast on the table
Lunch was sure
Jobs everywhere even for holidays
They lead at their youth
But today I am told I would lead tomorrow
Yet tomorrow never comes
Denied the food of sustenance
No shelter, no hope of the next meal
Denied quality anything
Five thousand chase one vacancy
They set us against ourselves
With guns they empower us
With hunger they enslave us
They refuse us to lead and lead us even at their burial
Obsolete ideas in our time of speed
This wicked generation have mortgage our lives unless we say no
Because I am blamed for being lazy

Henry Chinweuba
Email: somkey35@gmail.com

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