Imaginary Democracy Poem by Folorunsho Ahmed adekunle

Look! look! Look! Cautiously from ‘ur hood,
Loudly hearing via radio Jingle,
I heard but cannot err,
Seeing streets rejoicing no more gunmen as head.

"our unrest can now rest" said the men
With my deaf ear I heard them clearly on air
Wow! wow! wow!
Speechless seeing dictator taking a bow.

The muted parrot can now talk
Freely we walk, no guards to watch us like hawk,
Democracy! democracy! democracy!
With pretense peacefully taking our glory.

‘Of the people
by the people
for the people'
This they preach making us a fool.

Of'f the people,
B'u'ythe people,
F'a'r the people,
Ends of their gospel.

We rejoice around the Mickey Mouse freedom,
A lion promising goats and no evil nor hurt,
An oppressor not in uniform but cultural attire,
What a sincere lier we chose with our hand.

No knife no gun, with pen they rob us,
Democracy like an angel but devilish, this they brought,
Under a hot sun we queue, selling our conscience,
What a crazy demo!we lean, they fat in wealth.

Dry fish in the sea we are,
All we know is drought on blessed soil of ours,
You claim your rights, they take your life,
Dirty democracy with plights.

We sweat to feed them what a real modern slavery,
Indeed a crazy demo, era of justified injustice,
Bad nations! Bad heads! Bad compositions!
"Economical with the truth" what a nation!

A crazy demo of elites for elites,
Rich above laws of the land like birds in the sky.
Millions passed away in cold blood yet culprit roam,
So sad we hope on heart of stone.

Democracy will come from the feel,
That's ain't exactly real.
If real it's ain't exactly there
Never will it come any year, Not with compromise and fear.

If democracy stands for liberty,
Equality and justice at it peek,
far behind we are, like an elephant flying to sky,
"Until might stop being right" imaginary democracy we have.