FULL EMPTY STOMACHS
Telefed and starved
Deceived and used
We queue with empty bowls
Awaiting the Feds manna
One scoop apiece we get
As the chef brags of full bellies
Stocking rather to the brim
The barns of Ede, Lagos and yonder
From the harvest of greed
With empty beggarly stomachs
Locked down in futile hope
Ahundu, Michael Orkuma
About the Poet
Ahundu, Michael Orkuma hails from Benue State, Nigeria. He's a poet with some of his poems published in the Anthology of 500 Nigeria Poets volume 1 and The Soliloquies. His poems have also been accepted in the yet to be published Almajiri Anthology.
He's currently a doctorate student in the Department of Geography, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
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