Tope4242:
I wrote this poem here in early2014. I have been
wondering if this poem is still relevant today.
Please read it again and share your thoughts with
me.

HONOURABLES WITHOUT HONOUR
The chants are high[b]bfor nko[/b]
Each time they register their presence
The drum beats louder
Once they take the stage
They call them HONOURABLE(are they not
Even when they drag honour[b]how[/b]
To the ditch of honour.u sound confused here
Listen my brothers
To the voices of these honourables
Who promise without conscience[b]liar[/b]
To build huge bridges[b]and u believd them[/b]
Even where there are no rivers[b]see how stupid you(electorate) look[/b]
Like ice put in hot water
Their pledge melts at once[b]u lie[/b]
Come and see my sisters
The faces of our folks elevated
Drunk with the liquor of power
As they murder sleep[b]oversleep na im de worry una[/b]
Squandering all mandate of honour
Surrendered to them in trust dignified.nothing dignified about selling your birthright for pottage
My country men plus women
What are these big mountains
Standing stubbornly tall before us?simple signatures will level them
A mountain of lies and promises has melted
Tones of dead dreams deposited in our injured
hearts
Without honour or favour
By the cruel hands of our HONOURABLES.y r u still lying
Folks from all parts and paths
Lend me your ears[b]make you disturb my peace ba[/b]
To listen to the ugly story
Of your disguised assembly[b]stop wailing[/b]
Of your careless flag bearers of recklessness[b]i disagree[/b]
Who like unwanted children have abandoned you[b]did they not share cups of rice[/b]
In the dustbin of neglect
At the mercy of merciless poverty[b]says u[/b]
Supervised by red-eyed hunger[b][/b]trust me wen hunger gbab us we go arrange mother ffucckerrs
Monitored by a team of murderous diseases .
Even as I stand on this rock of shock
My eyes see with anguish inflated[b]so whatchu go'n do about it[/b]
How like petrol tanker on fire
Greed consume their every honour
They suffocate under the huge burden
Of unbridled boarder-less corruption
Their whole fingers chopped off to the arms[b]there arms or our arms[/b]
By the acid of fuel subsidy
Many grey hairs of pension and stock exchange
scam[b]when the elders were laying bad example they didn;t know ba[/b]
Standing stubbornly in their nostrils
After the deafening noise of power probe
Dirty money stoked in their long pockets of greed.don' kno whatchu talkin about ,cash accepted evrywhere
Some of these men sitting with women
Have warmed their seats for forty months and
eight[b]you get what you pay for[/b]
They are blind and deaf and without voice[b]abi its u that is blind and deaf with no voice[/b]
Sitting like loaves of bread turned dry[b]they look really fresh to me[/b]
By the coolness of a dozen air conditioners
Never a word from their thick lips on national
interest.who gives a rats ass
Let me take you to the vintage area
Decorated in distinguishing colours
Reserved for only the DISTINGUISHED
Not in character or patriotism
In bribery corruption (cost of playing politics)[/b]and rigging ([b]when in rome)[/b]they excelled
Come everyone and bear me witness
To this season of " amala" politic[b]if it ain't broke don't fix it[/b]s
Of take let's share
In the game of CHOP MEK I CHOP[b]na so o
Their protruding bellies housing our common
wealth[b]its not urs if yu're not willing to fight for it[/b]
To distinguish them from the rest of us[b]oh they are distiguished from ya'll all right[/b]
Our tiny necks almost broken by their tyranny.stop being a drama queen
Cone my people
Watch their dance of shame with no shame[b]we must be watching different shows[/b]
By these dishonourables of the Honourables
Urged on and propelled in loud voices
By a ruthless army of distinguished sharers[b]nothing ruthless about ppl that cost 1cup of rice[/b]
Of our common wealth abused.