I killed a snake today,
It was you I killed -
The fear coiled around
Your flesh, glistening
Like glass reflecting the sun.
I did not slit your throat,
As you reared like an adder
Across the lean path,
Rather I cut you in halves
Your rear half
Rolled down the small hill
That walled the path,
While your other half hurried
Into the bramble with
Your thick fear like cloud;
It would bite the trunk
Of an Iroko, and
Become still like a plinth.
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It was you I killed -
The fear coiled around
Your flesh, glistening
Like glass reflecting the sun.
I did not slit your throat,
As you reared like an adder
Across the lean path,
Rather I cut you in halves
Your rear half
Rolled down the small hill
That walled the path,
While your other half hurried
Into the bramble with
Your thick fear like cloud;
It would bite the trunk
Of an Iroko, and
Become still like a plinth.
It was shocking and embarrassing few days ago when Edo
state legislative puppets hurriedly passed a squalid bill which spells that past
Governors and Deputy Governors would henceforth be entitled to some juicy benefits
from the state’s already drained purse. These entitlements include, for past Governors each:
A five-star mansion worth a whooping sum of 200million naira in any location within
the country; three cars which certainly would worth about 200million naira –
these cars, as we were educated by the heinous bill, would be changed once in
every five years; three drivers, three cooks and a secretary starting from
level 12; free medical care for all the members of the governors. For the
Deputy Governors each: 100million naira mansion, three cars to be changed once in
every five years, cooks, driver, as well as secretary to be paid by our ‘poor’ government.
This is not to overlook the free medical treatment for them and their immediate
family. 
It's no longer something hidden that the 'Giant of Africa' has slipped into dire economic mess - an ugly situation which has resulted from past economic mismanagement and current managerial blankness on the part of those galloping the corridor of power. This present economic hardship has made itself obvious through hike in price, decadence in public infrastructure as well as high rise in corruption and other civil offences.
A flash of light, beams of my spirit clear the way for
subtle feelings of my mind. In an attempt of greatness, my mind looks beyond
the original. In the physique of my mind I thought I could beguile but behold
it crunches and cranks up like a cranking prawn. I laughed so loud as the light
was only a mirage, yes a mirage of hope, but could it really be? What! Did I
say so? Of course it is. A lively hope of glory circling the fruitful pleasures
of my heart with thoughts bubbling in my head yet never to be unlocked. Fluttering
in my mind are unlimited pleasures of imaginations so wide and fair that I
wonder casting it becomes my lot so much of it that I fear. But behold the
light comes again, this time shinning like an unusual fire fly. The dragons in
my heart begging to refuse but like a net on fire caught in the locks of misery,
I jump into the pool of imagination again. The condition of my heart tells of
the yearning of a better "imaginator" never to let me alone working
the battle of my mind. In him I find an assurance that this flicking light will
never go off; this light lightening the deep desires of my soul will never be
put out.
