Fourth Estate of the Realm

By Chidi Anthony Opara

Why do you cause pains?
With reckless pens,
With incubated fabrications
Of fertile imaginations,
Like incubus,
Suppressing virtuous esteems.
You are endowed with powers
To poke at consciences
Of conniving crooks,
To pour virtues
On corrupted consciences,
And bring on earth, paradise.
Your powers you display
On scarlet shelves,
To be priced and paid for.
Why do you dance?
Wine and dine,
In the euphoria of alias,
Alias of mockery,
Fourth estate of the realm,
Ha- ha-ha,
Ho-ho-ho.