Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Not Guilty


Not guilty my Lord!

Though I drank of this gourd

That men enforced on me

Not guilty is my plea

For primary activities

Not guilty my plea

For secondary encouragement

Not guilty my plea

For graduated tutorship

And post graduated effrontery

Not guilty!


Not guilty my Lord!

Ask the cocks that crow

If I don’t wake to time

Ask my hard palms

If they ever spared a task

Inquire from the twinkling stars

How long they wait to see me home

Ask my stormy brain

If it ever sleeps


Had I the chance

I could be good

Let his Excellency bear me witness

My guilt, a lack of silver spoon

To dine with the eminent

My guilt is the refusal

To tow their short-cut

1 comment:

orantimi said...

Unemployment has become a big monster in the nation. Many go to school, spend so many years in acquiring a skill to work but they end up becoming dregs of the society.

Who do we blame? the students who went through the process of training or the government with a kind of training that makes graduate still dependent on the government for jobs?

Who is guilty?