I am raped and cheated
In my folly for being accommodative
My blood, my own sailed me like a ship
A sea of no importance to demand
What is required of me is silence and prayer
But I should have known that
Even at my mercy, I am mocked
Rejected, abused, while they smile
Year in year out, they laugh at me
They undress me for the laughter of all the public
The government refuses justice
They used my name to attain positions
Shun me to make all the wealth for themselves
Buy cars of assorted colours, neglect my happiness
Stole in my name, to buy recognition
Relegate me to the background
Expose me to public ridicule
Is all they do.
While they eat fat and happy
What a life I have suffered
Who will help me out of my situation?
Like a gang all become one
To steal, rape me to make ends meet
My roads are death traps
Even to my shame for their happiness
Who among them could be real?
No, not one, even in their conscience
What a pitiable sight I have become
Too shameful even to look at anyone.
Am I also part ofRiversState?
The state I was once proud of?
No matter my contribution to the state
No matter my commercial input.
Have I not helped in the area of accommodation?
I carry part of the state loads
Yet, no one speaks for me in my sadness
I have become the neglected one
Among the comity of states
Even in the federation
Who will speak for me?
And I could be heard in my pain
My sons are all wise cheats
Cheating me to be mocked by all strangers
But for my silence all goes on well with them
I count nothing even in my pain
I have been abused as the undeveloped LGA
Chastened as the only dirty LGA.
Where are my senators
The House of Representatives members?
My chairmen, where are they?
They are the ones, who have slandered me
I have no name among the LGAs
May heaven be merciful to me in my plight,
I continue to pray each day
To be helped out of my prison
From my captors’ hands
My sons, for heaven sake
To be happy like other LGAs
InRiversState, my dear state
To be free once and all
Also to enjoy development
This is my prayer unto Yahweh
The grand creator of Heaven and Earth.
Allanso Jonathan Allanso
The mirror poet
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