Itoro Ekwere
If I work, I work
If I work not, I work not
Work calls at seven
Respond I at ten
Government work
Allegiance is placed not in practice
Nor in signing time book.
Government work
Freedom is felt like in Free Town
Like a kite, we toss freely in the wind.
No one calls to order
Cause the head is myopic
Lost in senseless war for pleasures
with kleptomaniac fingers
melting the greenness in our flag.
Its fading colour, weep in solidarity
to our heroes past.
Government work
”Man know man” is the slogan.
Mediocracy overthrown meritocracy
flagged in shameless war of nepotism.
We walk in and out our offices
with heavy hearts of nationalism.
We seek to do good on papers,
advertising our shenanigans to beg for more.
We extend our right hands for handshakes
but sign away our future with the left.
Government work.
each day we operate on
radar sensing mode like a chameleon
licking the treasury with our ink
stock away in foreign lands
and cemeteries, we’re ‘patriotic’.
When night calls on us,
we slide into different shades.
From broom to umbrella,
from chicken to forming a family.
Government work
If I work, I work
If I work not, I work not
Work calls at seven
Respond at ten.
