Louis Ochuko Ehwerhemuepha: Land of Irony

Land of Irony

©2010 Louis Ochuko Ehwerhemuepha

We live in a land of irony
      Where we are ruled in freedom
       A beautiful murky freedom
       Our floors are made of gold
       Our rivers silver.
       Yet fortunate is one with one square meal.
       We wallow in the pages of the Bible
       We dress with the pages of the Koran
       But our tongues are snakes
       Our hands machetes
       Our feet made of hot numb iron,
       We have an enormous land size
       Yet we drink blood every nook and cranny
       And still never have a home.
       We fell trees after our drilling
       And still cannot carve a splinter.
       We are blessed so much
       But we are sinking in a quagmire of curses.

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