From Freedom to Free Doom
Ademola Adesola
The people abandon the oases of reason.
For their strange love of easy answers,
they lurch from freedom to free doom.
The denizens seek the rare miracle of water becoming wine.
For their preposterous thirst for solutions made easy,
they gallop from freedom to free doom.
The compatriots deride knowledge and learning.
For their gnawing embrace of ignorance and superficiality,
they cavort from freedom to free doom.
The ‘citizens’ pledge themselves to philistinism.
For their ruinous affection for all things ephemeral,
they gambol from freedom to free doom.
The ‘patriots’ applaud the ritual of specious change.
For their uncanny docility and weird gullibility,
they pirouette from freedom to free doom.
The habitués of holy grounds soak themselves in the intoxicants of religiosity.
For their unhelpful escapism and tactless denial,
they wander from freedom to free doom.
The inhabitants of the arid land conform to unfreedom.
For their incomprehensible belief in falsehood,
they sashay from freedom to free doom.