Time Will Tell

VOICE OF REASON:

Time Will Tell

I‘ve been up for four days

Because the news from home makes me daze

Right now all I want is to get my views in print and on the airwaves

To get ahead of the political waves

Because we live in a country full of wolves

With the Politicians milking the system and making waves

Everyone’s looking for ways to make cedis out of fools

Without any life skills or entrepreneurial tools

Politics used to be a dream for our leaders to leave legacies

But it has become a business and an avenue to riches

And a game to win very profitable government’s contracts

In a country where possibility or potential abounds

How come worldly toys top our wish lists

The few cedis we’ve stashed in the banks and the mansions we own choke our brains

Vanity and fantasies can only give us false hopes

When the disaster comes we’ll be in empty holes

Wondering what to count on when the old age hits the fan

With nothing to write home about to our fans

With the oil money no one can accurately predict Ghana’s future

So I won’t bank my scarce hope on its future

The sad thing is our youth have no time to read and fortified mental faculty

They Google their way around issues to prove their agility

Yet they hardly know no one cares about their frailty

You’re part of the solution

If you pay any attention

You’re part of the problem if you rob the nation

How do you feel when you sleep at night?

Knowing you should have done right?

Hope you have something important to count on

When everything is long gone

It makes me wonder when things will be all over

For no one has anything better to offer

Every Ghanaian wants something

For nothing

It’s a shame in the ocean of ideas our leaders are visionless

But they find it easy to panhandle for money with guiltless

Our politicians are just looking forward to enjoying their loots at their expensive homes

With their families and homies

When the majority us are humming

Remember some have-nots are very hungry

And they have become very angry

Trying to take revenge

Because they know nobody will escape their vengeance

Our youth have no education or skills but no one cares

What you don’t feel or see matters less

What they eat, wear, drink or smoke is news less

We have no obligation if we don’t live in the same shell

Especially if we have no responsibility and inclination to share

We’ve put a lot of hopes in the oil discovery

To deliver us from all misery

But in a country with so many expectations

And so little positive thinking and creations

There is no room for negotiations

None of us can sleep when the armed robbers strike

Because their skills put many lives at stake

The policy makers and stakeholders should be awake

To help the security officers to strike

Time will be the judge in the future’s courtship

Where everyone accounts for his stewardship

Time will tell when the true pictures are developed

To justify how much we were involved.

Time heals every wound

It can also wound every heel.

Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi (VOICE OF REASON)

NJ, USA