First Gong Vol. 8: Thrust FIRST GONG 8 THRUST | Page 242

What is yet to be raised?
We’ve raised hospitals, clinics, medical centres.
To attend to our sickly needs,
As variant flavours of diseases slowly ebb us away,
If it is not Measles, it is Diabetes,
Cholera or diarrhoea,
Malaria or Ebola,
Sars or Aids,
Even the poxes boxed us to death
We have instituted institutions.
Religious institutions
Social institutions
Educational institutions
Political institutions
Economical Institutions
Even the raised have instituted more problems than solutions.
What is yet to be raised?
Akinmusire “Asapen” Akinyemi
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