A RAPED NATION

                                                                           BY DAMILOLA TOWOBOLA

A solicitous new day

Born with the unfolding of a new sun

365 days of the last calendar had become history

She was merrily popping the champagne

And radiating with fun

Flash! The television set began to talk

She was struck by a greek gift

A despairing spear on a new year eve

Wines devastatingly went savoury

Her chickens began to fertilize with maggots

She became disillusionised

Cried foul and gnashed teeths

Damilola Towobola a.k.a Spaiz

Alas, racing to the streets

Carrying placards like billboards

To show her discontents

Her fruits fell by the bullets

And some out of shock

Houses razed down in the inferno

And her children beaten with clubs

Yet her kins-folk remained in dark sun glasses

On the acclaimed settlement table

Her kins-folk exercised veto power

And diabolically raped her by due process

Her subsidy was removed

Daylight embarrassment

She threatened to strike

But they struck her back

They sucked her excess account

And squeezed her lovely economy

Her wailing was in vain

                                                                                                                                  

What a shame to D.E.M.O.C.R.A.C.Y !

They deregulated her downstream sector

That was oily

She couldn’t say anything

But cried because they slapped her with 97 naira.

We stand as a witness to the rape of the masses.