UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS

A poem by Prince Lokendo

BUT NOW

I thought marriage would be holy

A carriage of love and caring and not folly

But now it’s a place of regrets and heartbreaks

Causing the young ones to suffer

I expected schools to be a tool

A weapon to make all minds full

Baking and brightening students’ future
But now it’s a road of hard rules and torture

I expected hospitals to cure 

A house of treating people

But now it’s like a waiting place for death

Where patients are kept to die

I took churches as sanctified sanctuaries

Symbols of holiness and unity

But now they have turned into wrestling rings

Where people fight for positions

I considered courts as pillars of honesty and justice

But now they are corruption centers

 Innocent people arrested

Leaving wives and children cold 

I regarded police stations to be

Places for protection and security

But now they are houses of robbers and thieves

Who rob and judge fairly unfair