The Lovely Monster

He spoke like a superhuman

Walked like human

Clothe like human

Eats like human

So society called him human.

 

Society liked him

They play and tilled with him

They sing his hymn

Until they brought him to their feast

Where he sealed their mouths with his fist

 

A lofty fist that scope all meats

All fish all water all funds at all meets.

 

He dwarfed the society

And found his society in their society

His breath shattered their dreams and took their breath away

And half the society seeks to fly away.

 

As they bathe with the dust of their now parched land

They hate the day they first liked him

They hate the day they first sang his hymn

They searched the sky for the balm to heal their land.

 

[A poem about Nigeria and a 21st century leader of the country who caused untold hardship to the people.  Hope Idieli genuinely decried the dearth of good leadership in Nigeria and indeed Africa]

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