Manifold Blessings by Adewale Sobowale

What do they really want?

People are complaining about our living large;

after empowering them –

Didn’t they know we must make tenfold of investment?

They are complaining about our SUVs;

These people are too lazy

to think straight!

;

Didn’t they know we need to empower ourselves

against bad roads to visit our constituencies?

In any case, we need to show the opposition we’ve arrived!

By the way, if they knew the amount we have

in the banks, what would they do?

Or, about the money we’re spending on

our wives not to talk of side chicks!

Local schools are no longer good enough

for our wards because they’re not well-equipped;

We don’t eat local food again,

they are likely to be cancerous!

They hardly know we’re doing them a favour

by visiting them!

We could have stayed in our cosy offices

or our palatial official houses

and not bother with them!

After all, we know we can always give them

crumbs when the next election is approaching!

We understand them

much more than they do themselves!

They may not know the cupful of rice

we give them four-yearly

is not for them to eat!

But to plant and the growth

will be manifold

enough to feed generations!

@ as 102623

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