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Main >> Poetry >> Yusuf M. Adamu

Yusuf M. Adamu
 
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Updated On: 14 September 2005 - Words Count: 115 - Number of Reads: 540
 
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Common Man Print
called common
common is he
he is the majority

his immense faith in God
that predicaments are from God
destiny always lies with God
kept his spirit alive

in the place of my birth
he is de-ideologized
made too submissive
never raise an eyebrow
hardly point an accusing finger
phobia of those uncommon men

the uncommon are crude
they dislike the common man
with no sympathy for him
to his suffering they’re insensitive
but always pretending fighting his cause
using him only as front

but the common can be uncommon
as bakin-wake dealt with the prince
uncommon act shall he stage
to make it a common play

July 15, 1999


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