WASTING

It was a very harsh summer
As I sat here in my usual corner
Watching the day as it moves fast
 
With I, having no record of income as time pass.

For many, it was as if time was reversed to the 30s
The great time of depression.

I begin to wonder why things were the way it is,
And to where our leaders are leading,
  Because at the pace of ill, at which we are moving.

One day, suddenly we will vanish.
Company upon company declared bankruptcy,
Unemployment soared the severe and prolonged recession.
Our state of complaint and poor reasoning
Our state of steadfast penury,
Our state of consistent robbery and kidnapping.

We complain about our leaders government,
We say they don't deserve to be in office
But with our thumb we brought them in.

I listened to a song by an artiste
I was agape by his touching lyrics
  To my surprise, I said "this is talent wasting!"

This is Nigeria
Where the rights of citizens are tied like headgear
Where the less privileged are controlled like car gears
Where without loathing, you can't sit on sofa-chairs
As it is with our appointees, so is it with us the citizens

We choose to rather sit back and complain
And remain impoverished
While we waste away
And our destiny keeps wasting

 Women waste the destiny of young men
And men waste the destiny of young girls
Even our leaders waste our resources

What then shall we do
When our hands are tied to our waist
And our voice lowered beneath the waist.
No one could deny the fact that the country had problems

Everyone was fixing the blame,
Nobody was fixing the problems
The recession ran rampant across the country
Until nearly everyone was affected by it, and no one was immune.
The problems persisted, they grew
But the biggest problems we had was our attitude towards the country's economic problem.
"THE CHANGE WE SEEK, BEGINS WITH US"
©Go_Emotional