When around the fat waist of dishonesty
He clads his hands
Stirring the soup of corruption
Joining the coup that dethrone honesty
We forget it was not wickedness but hunger
That makes the tigers crack the skulls of their preys
Hungers sometimes leaves the judge no choice
Than to twist the course of justice
And bend the paths of truth
The lawmakers are the law breakers
When the verdict is passed
The helpless officer won't go home
To his hungry children or nagging wife
He will go rather to the den of robbers
To make a pact with monsters
And the vicious dynasty of crooks is maintained
The laws of liars will make the reign of evil stronger
© Olatuja Oloyede
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