SHINE YOUR EYES
‘Vote for me and your life will never be the
same’
‘Vote for me and my parliamentarian candidates
And we will transform the country’
‘A vote for me is a vote for development and
transformation’
‘I will make sure I bridge the poverty gab
And cleanse the public sector from stinking
corruption’
These are the routine political cacophony
And ear-piercing choruses that hijack our ear
drums each election year
They are the same hollow promises whose housing
have been changed
And repainted and later presented to us as new
policies and manifestos
They have absolutely nothing new to offer any
man
No African politician does any good thing out
of sheer duty
Every single thing they give is meant to return
in a million fold
Why then should we as a people
Allow our priceless selves to be used as
disposable cups by these politicians?
These same politicians who only use us to
get what they want
And immediately make trash of us when they get
to the top
Why should we run gaga for these rich and
mostly property-hungry people
Who only feign humility and moral uprightness
during election years?
Why should we abhor each other because we
belong to different political parties
Whose leadership are sworn enemies of basic
truth?
Why do we kill and maim each other for these
politicians
Who provide us with facilities meant to make us
heavily dependent on them
Other than amenities meant to liberate us?
Why die for these people who have no faith and
see no value in our local academic and health institutions?
These same people who prefer educating their
families
And seeking medical care abroad when they
themselves are in the position
To transform these local institutions to
world class standards
They claim they want our votes to serve us
When indeed they want our legitimate permission
to milk and lord over us
We must and ought to wake up from our zombie
slumber
It’s about time we put on our thinking helmets
and bring sanity to this nation
It’s about time we know our worth!
We’re worth more than political party shirts
and paraphernalia
Our lives are worth more than these pathetic
promises of a better future
These peoples need neither your suggestions nor
recommendations
They care less about what happens to you after
the elections
Whether you graduate from school or not, they
care less about that
All they think of is how to use you to ascend
the political ladder!
Grow up!
A sitting president gave his all to this nation
He continued to worked even when his health was
failing him badly
He died while in active service for the nation
and guess what?
He was forgotten within three months!
An ex-vice president also died after less than
four years of leaving office
And he was forgotten within 2 weeks!
How much less you, a mere citizen?
What makes you think fighting for a politician
is a fight with a glorious end?
You’ll die like a rat and be buried at a time
when those politicians are busy
Committing adultery with campus girls who never
voted for in the first place
Awake from your self-imposed torture fellow
Ghanaians
Let’s quit fooling ourselves and fighting for
these politicians
Like baboons on heat
And work more towards moulding a better future
for our own selves
And for generations yet unborn
Let’s wake up Ghanaians
For our future rest in our own hands
Let’s wake up for the future is not in
political party colours
The present and whatever emanates from the
future is ours to make
Let’s shine our eyes!!
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