A Plea For Mercy

Help save our motherland

A beautiful country

‘Chameleoned’ into a bat

Tattered in loaned clothes

Feeding on her intestines

Her first sons are wolverines

They serve visitors with gold

But deny other siblings of good

Her heart is being wagered

Poor her, chortling out blood

Isn’t it luckless and lugubrious?

Yes, but her sons see not.

Their game is to throw the ‘big dice’

They care not who’ll get somersaulted

Now ‘peace’, her holy honest handhold

Begging not to bow to collateral damage

Poem by yours only,

Abdul Rahman Odoi

@Big Odoi_Poems

All rights reserved.©️2020

Photo credit: Unknown

Author: Abdul Rahman Odoi

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