Put the Blames on Me

Put the Blame on Me

                                                I

I have failed to scale

The hurdles placed before me

Rather all of them I fell.

Please put the blames on me!

                                II

I was made a leader

By the people who conscientiously followed me

To the best of ability and capability

But I failed woefully, them

And their faith highly placed in me I dashed.

So I have to say that you should

Please, put the blame on me!

                                III

Their trusts I betrayed

Their money I gulped

I used for my personal desires.

Their resources I squandered

To build empires for myself.

Indeed, I have failed them, therefore

Please put the blames on me!

                                IV

Their sufferings I increased

Their pleas I turned deaf ears to

Their cries of pain I neglected.

The devil in me keep crying

For the ill wealth I am gathering.

So for all these, people,

Please put the blames on me!

                                V

Insatiable is my lust for wealth

China, Russia, England, America,

India, Germany, are among the

Countries where the tax payer’s money

I looted from my people’s treasury are kept by me

For my personal and family use

Thinking it is wealth that is the

Lasting legacy to leave for children. But

Please put the blames on me!

                                VI

Their roads are in a very

Sad and highly deplorable state.

They are subjected to accidents

On a daily basis because

Of my appointments. Therefore

Put the blames on me!

                                VII

I appointed people who are my cohorts, since

They want to achieve their personal aims

They never question my decisions

Contracts I to them give

Whether execution takes place or not

I care less. In as much as I

Can get the ones to fill my accounts foreign.

As a result, they continue to

Suffer the masses whose money

It is we continue to eat.

Please put the blames on me!

                                VIII

The lawmakers by them elected

Are but crooks as we in the executive

They bring laws that will implicate the masses

And put so much coin in their pockets.

They to the banks daily smile

While the masses hardly a bank account have.

When I even try to execute little

People-friendly projects, they request

For ridiculously high amounts of money

Before the bill is passed, hence, because of

My own personal benefit and since the money

Isn’t mine, I give to them.

The project bill passed,

I take my share of the total

Assigned expenditure for the project

And to the minister in charge the rest I pass

Who his share also takes and the rest he sends

To pay the quack contractors who

In turn execute the contract

In a haphazard manner.

The brunt is borne by who?

The tax-paying masses!!!

Again for all these, I say

Please, put the blames on me!

                                                IX. The Closure... A Sonnet

Oh Lord, God of Creation,

From You I seek lots of serious forgiveness

For the atrocities I committed in my nation

For I have but ruled them with passiveness.

Though my inequities be as high as the mountain

Lord, I pray you help reduce them to rubbles.

Let me be as fresh as water from the fountain

And make the goods I do, come up in their doubles.

The people I erred against, I

Have apologised and begged to forgive

Me, and forgive have they with tears in my eye

To them, all rights due, I have to give.

Though my crimes be as much as the sea,

They should please put the blames on me!!!

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