Voice of penury — Emmanuel Ekpevwrus

Voice of penury
Affluence oftentimes lulls
people into the warm em-
brace of contentment. Rosy
pictures of posh life shield the
eyesore of the slum. Life of ease for
the minority easily obscures the
want and deprivation of the major-
ity. But stifled voices of protest find
expression in poetic verses. They
reflect their world of degradation
and poverty, jolting the rich from
their cushion of affluence.

Resuscitation
All of a sudden,
Things began to take their shapes
again.
The sky blind-folded by the
Opacity of an incessant storm-cloud,
Started to show its face.
And man drowning in the
Misery of times frustrating
And times unbearable,
Became awake and resuscitated.
Yet memories remain;
Not forgotten but only repressed.
Memories of cupfuls of bitterness
drunken
As a consequence of paternal miser-
liness.
Memories of piles read
And knowledge not put to use.
Memories of jobs sought
And jobs not secured.
Memories of people depending
And people wasting.
But at least, with this appetiser
That comes once in a full phase,
Man like a reanimated cadaver,
Has a place in the sun.