Soyombo Ayomikun: Who gave them guns? (POETRY)

 

  1. To protect us

To guard our walls

To keep our roads safe

And our streets sane

Reasons why in their hands

Rifles are placed

 

  1. But then

We keep hearing the story

Of a policeman

Gone berserk

Of a law enforcement agent

Gone wild

 

  1. We hear the story

Of an innocent man

Who won’t give bribe

Who won’t bow to a swindler

Being shot in a rendition of madness

From the lips

Of a supposed

Law enforcer

Making one ask-

Who gave them the guns?

 

 

  1. We hear the story

Of a man

Struggling

To make ends meet

That his family

May thrive

Sadly being stopped

By a trigger-happy soul

We hear the story

Of how his wife

Right before him

Was silenced,

A saint

Murdered like a sinner

By one

Who should be bleeding

For us

Making one again ask-

Who gave them the guns?

 

  1. All these

Call to question

The sanity

Of some of our security men

Because

Who kills a harmless

Innocent civilian

If not one

With a split mind

Who discharges his or her rifle

Without questioning

Thrice?

 

 

  1. A mentally unstable

Law enforcement agent

Is definitely a murderer

Let loose

To unleash horror

On the innocent,

Is definitely

A loose cannon

That will explode

Drawing tears

From the eyes of many,

Is definitely

A preventable disaster

That shouldn’t

Have smelt the rifle…

Not in this world

Nor the next

 

 

  1. So many security operatives

With anxiety disorders

With depression

With sleep disorders

Carrying guns

Daily

On our streets,

How will these

Not discharge their guns

Accidentally

How will they

Not murder a mother

Right before her family

How?

 

  1. Without a thorough

Mental State Examination

Government should please

Not kit a soul,

We don’t want kitted monsters

Guarding us,

We don’t want serial killers

Parading our alleys

As Policemen

Or otherwise.

We have so much sorrows

In our world already

Than to be setting up a security personnel

To become another

Agent of doom!

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