BY GLORIA O’KOYE
If problems were so easy to be solved
Why are they still happening?
If creation provided all the necessities,
Why only a small percentage of humans
Have full control of them.
Distribution in small rations to the masses,
While a few feast and even treat luxury of
Resources as waste filling up landfills.
If it was so easy for everyone to take
What is needed
Not out of greed, overfilling their pockets.
Leaving scraps for those enlightened
By humility and patience.
If problems were so easy to be solved,
Why our young who are strangers
Taking each other lives,
For the bickering between
Older generations that know one another.
For wars fought by those that are full of
Life, the people who live and die for their
Beliefs and propagandas being fed,
Only for disagreements to end with
Signatures on paper
After land and water fill with bloodshed.
If problems could be easily solved
At a snap of a finger,
And the people truly have a voice.
Why are the powers that retire
Placed as judges in inquests for
Others in current power.
Passing down sentences behind closed
Doors, with no community to be there.
All would be well in ideology,
If human nature didn’t add in the factors.
When solutions are already within reach
Yeh, we make things harder.
