Man of the year 2020

 MAN OF THE YEAR 2020

THE COMMON MAN

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"To eats he begs,

 To survive the harsh economic realities, he turns his children to hawks

 He picks disused, abandoned cloth, otherwise called tokunbo

 To get His pension, he protest

 For shelter, he sleeps under the bridge

 His hopes are mindlessly dashed,

He is deprived of the very basic essentials of living

He lacks portable water

Electricity which he pays heavily for

From the streets, his life became endangered

Armed robbers would attack shoot at him in broad day light

He is at the mercy of fake, adultrated drugs

Poor water are marketed as pure

Unwholesome and unhygenic food items

To compound his woes:

The hospitals are not only inaccessible

They are terrible expensive

Which make him to run to quacks,herbal homes

Or simply engages in self medication

All very dangerous

Because the government has failed to

Cater for his health needs

The common man escaped flood and fire

Disasters, armed robbers, harsh economic realities,

adultrated, fake products, terrorist attacks

stolen political processes, bombings

Makes him, the man on the street

Who is very far from the government

Who the government does not

Think of alleviating his suffering

The man who bears the brunt of 

Every government's misdeed,

Misgovernance, deserve the 

Award, His resilience, his determination

His survival instincts make him ripe 

again,

For the man of the year award

The Original piece was written + edited  by me in 2004 !!!