Executioner - A poem about the Nigerian Police

March, 2021

Of law and disorder
Of life and death
Of peace and war
Of love and hatred
Of calm and fear

Of bidders and the high and dry
Of banks and pockets
Of traffic and congestions
Of justice and inequality
Of fairness and imbalance

Of rich and poor
Of healthy and sick
Of joy and sorrow
Of unity and discord
Of courteousness and recklessness

Of virtue and hypocrisy
Of stings and shakedowns
Of laughter and tears
Of the people and government
Of conscience and immorality

Of testimonies and fabrications
Of protection and peril
Of present and future
Of old and young
In black, blue and orange