The land whose conscience is dead

Unbeatable series I

The land whose

 conscience is

dead

Omotoyosi Craig

Land the solid part of the earth’s surface, literarily a country or his people.

1

Our land our home our heritage.

I have learnt from libraries, internet and tales I was told

That there is something called karma or the saying

What goes up must come down.

Also, in movies, the righteous triumph

Even in the Bible, the evil doers do not go unpunished

I also know that the land does not take blood.

I know that land does not soak but leaves it to dry.

Surely, you too would have heard ‘he that kills will surely be killed’.

2

In my land where the cat kills the lion as they say

The reverse is the case

People who commit Evil go scot free

People kill without being punished

Husbands kill their wives for money

Brothers kill sisters, Parents rape daughters

Teachers beat student to death

Police falsely indict and sometimes kill innocent souls for money

Children are used for rituals

The leaders are Machiavellian in their approach to leadership

3

Hardly do we find the wicked punished in my land, what a pity

I had been waiting for I thought someone would talk

But it’s like the ancient treasured path, everybody wants it

Our Land is growing dry and weak

Our Young men’s Spirits is dying low

Pitiable conditions is almost a lifestyle in my land

If you are an emotional person

Come see our conditions, you will weep your heart out.

4

Who can say where these evil road of injustice leads to

Who can tell us the state our land will be in the nearest future

Let him come lead us;

We are giants, yet

We are trodden upon like fallen roses

Who shall we blame our tough luck on

So many words, so many policies, so many agendas,

Yet our disappointing leaders linger as if we are friends

Sometimes some of these people believe everybody loves them when the truth actually is that everybody hates them

5

Leaders of tomorrow so they call the youths

A tomorrow that had been eaten up

You cannot drink water and chew simultaneously

We see evil people, we know what they do is bad

Sometimes we wish through magic of gods they die

But unfortunately it’s like the gods are dead,

The reverse is the case, the wicked flourish

In my land where Abominations are as Usual

6

Let our silent relegated majority speak with a resounding roar

A weak land awaits a quake

Am scared, the animals are even corrupt

The domestic animals are joining in doing evil

There is like a link between evil and authority in my land,

These great evil perpetrators still turn around to be leaders

The old ones eat  up their eggs.

They warn us, Yes they tell us

From Evil we should run

Yet they lure us to do evil to accomplish their selfish ambition

A mission to ruin us

7.

What baffles me most is that

 Those who try to challenge evil leadership

Or those who try solve ancestral problems either

 Through actions or art works are lost in this voyage of candor

Remember any, they never lived long

Most of the ones who live long end up losing their faith

Some started well and ended up joining our land defilers

Maybe they’ve passed through the part of the land that is cursed

8

We must be brave

So that our children will not be slaves as we almost are

We must pray as well as pay so

We don’t become prey to these land defilers

That is when we can say we are save

And the existence of the enemies of our destiny

as well as that of our soul is thus ever vanished

9

Is there a glitter of hope?

Should we form a cult to cure our land?

Should we start our emancipation campaign

The course of courage

Running with a clear vision and defined mission

For among us, within our peers

Even right here in our camp we surely have Judas, the generation of vipers

With sagacity and love we can and ultimately

through the inspiration of the almighty we will triumph

In our track of freedom

10

We are not as vacuous as our fathers

We are not fighting against the humans

But the spirit behind this misfortune

We are fighting a sure won battle

Join this army, form allies with this crew

Stay connected, don’t break the ranks

For this is more than to chronicle our history

But to bring that imaginary hope to reality

It is ordained

We must re-awake, rekindle, ignite and lighten the conscience of this land for we have nowhere to run

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