<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350352" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hope In Limbo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doused conflagration delivers ashes.<br>A harvested plantain tree<br>Gives breathing space for suckers to thrive.<br>The transition of a great monarch<br>Revives sinew of hope on heir aparent.<br>A great man transits<br>Bequeathing great inheritance to successors.<br>A leading horse in a race<br>Beckons on other horses to increase speed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ruminated over these sayings; <br>I was imbued to think about the youths.<br>Like a clairvoyant; <br>I peeped my third eye<br>Misty vision beclouds me<br>Palpable despodency clothed me<br>Looming confusion beckons on the future<br>Planlessness of past years<br>Is about to birth anarchy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sighed with great pain.<br>I wonder if others<br>Are seeing the same.<br>I wonder as the elders<br>Nonchalantly attend to the future.<br>Elders are around<br>Yet the heads of new babies<br>Are not properly rested<br>At the back of their mothers.<br>The youths are in pains.<br>In pain of joblessness.<br>In pain of docility.<br>As early morning breaks daily; <br>More confusion powdered young faces.<br>They wandered about for nothing<br>Their energy and potentials.<br>Are being buried as days go bye.<br>Hope bleaks the more daily</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched in disbelief<br>How elders are at marketplace<br>Yet babies are improperly rested<br>Behind their mothers<br>We blame the youths<br>Forgetting our traditional roles<br>We spared the rods<br>Breeding future rascals<br>We extremely copied human rights<br>At the detriment of our children's future<br>We failed to culvitate the fallow soil<br>Leaving wild animals behind<br>To ravage our youths.<br>We cherish our careers<br>Leaving a porous future<br>Our cosmetic joy of today<br>Is ruining hope for future<br>Hope is in limbo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Babatunde+Aremu">Babatunde Aremu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350352" data-title="Hope In Limbo de Babatunde Aremu" data-description="Doused conflagration delivers ashes. A harvested plantain tree Gives breathing space for suckers to thrive. The transition of a great monarch Revives sinew of hope on heir aparent. A great man transits Bequeathing great inheritance to successors. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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