My Country's dirty gamesters

As children we were told that we are lucky to be born in this nation

We were told that our land flows with milk and honey and that we are the giant of Africa

We were told that we typify the black race and our country is on the path of greatness

That was our foundation in this part of the world.

We started life disadvantage through no fault of ours

Our parent made promises based on the promises the government made to them

We hailed the government under the scorching sun for using tax payers' money to give our schools some furniture

Our education is now source of their income; glittering future is placed on chess board.

And they say to us that we are the future of the country while their actions clearly showed that they don't believe there is a future.

We go about eating bones when we are children of the butcher

We feed on the remnant left for their dogs like poor Lazarus

They called us lazy youth, YES! We are lazy youth when our lawmakers make law in favor to their family

The government play with our future in the name of exaggerated pandemic

They take the country's money meant for the poor to enrich their accounts and left us with our rags

They become the thorns that choke our green plants

They make our worship home desolate with their ungodly conditions

Their actions torment us like lucifer's bishop.

With their dirty game, mixture of tears and pains has killed many

With their dirty game, many becomes ritualist

With their dirty game, many becomes terrorist

With their dirty game, evil increases on daily basis in the country

Good news becomes no news; bad news sells in the market.

With their dirty game, many flew out to secure job but they were reject by the white

With their dirty game, many becomes kidnappers

The country is no longer a shelter for us,

Our daily life seems to be in hell.

We fear for the unseen evil coming

We sleep with one eye opened like a farmer whose maize is ready for harvest

Their promises are like porridge's aroma, which we smell but we can't taste it

Our right is ignored like leprosy man in Israel

Nepotism is installed in their blood

and they become puppets to corruption

They have provided for their unborn children what they will live on while we scrape on kobo given to us

All because of their game, we suffer for the cost.

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