OCTOBER TWENTY, TWENTY-TWENTY

 OCTOBER TWENTY, TWENTY-TWENTY

Who the hell are they fooling

With shows so incongruous to human reasoning?

Fumbling liars lacking substance

Hunters of excuses so gloomy and sparse

Their hired liars

Only need some bags of liards

To veil in vain the stary eyes

Of truth’s crystal sights

Shockingly gasping at their lies

Liars they are – hired to lie

To bury the masterminded blinding sights

Unleashed stone-heartedly on targeted sites!

Traders of lies

Trampling on our rights!

Your gory seats of power

Galls not your hearts?

Nor offend your stifled conscience?

When a peaceful protest

Was rendered bloody

By the pure greed of your governance

Your shameful art glaringly shoddy

Purely perverted grossly bloody!

A peaceful protest

Turned deadly

Hoisting a night of tortuous tempest!

To arch burial chambers in your vain conquest

To maim and slaughter at your own behest!

Behold the epicentre of the protest!

Widely adjudged to be peaceful and orderly

Turned to our kin’s slaughterhouse by the rudderless

That have hijacked democracy’s tenets

To serve and oil their personal interests

In the most horrendous grisly cruelty!

October twenty, twenty-twenty

The night our hopes were spilled and emptied

A night of historical and grisly holocaust

Painted with blood by the loathsome lost

The national flag – of no match to the cost

Would there ever be justice

Beyond the twists of truths we were made to see?

Can justice ever stand

In the face of these lies

So unrepentant and dastardly?

What justice would withstand

The war against humanity’s stand?

Waged with might against our rights

Right to speak and right to life

October twenty, twenty-twenty

A scourging pandemic to liberty’s hopes!

©Wale Oladokun 19-11-2020