WHAT'S LIFE REALLY WORTH?...a poetic charge

WHAT'S LIFE REALLY WORTH?...for the common man in Nigeria

what's life worth...?

dying for a cause; 

the high level corruption; 

the socio-economic rape; 

psycho-spiritual bondage; 

bigotry; 

wars, tension & strife; 

advanced fee fraud; 

ethnic cleansing; 

slavery; 

violence; 

extrajudicial & ritualistic killing; 

narcissism; 

justice miscarriage; 

nepotism; 

lethal silence; 

immunity to horror.

Is life worth...?

those grains of sand between your toes or a place in heaven in the golden palaces of the Middle East, under the auspice of an highly spirited atmosphere.

Is it what we cheat for...to the extent of killing? and at what price?

Is it worth the deception that has put me, you, our entire homeland in eternal mental & 

spiritual bondage?

Is it worth the interminable wars where nations constant the weakest link among brother 

nations from Africa to other continents?

Is it what makes men defile their daughters? or sickening chills of bitterness of the soul  of a child, till he can  no longer be maintained in the societal cage of his development  that has been reinforced by age-old of injustice, intimidation, prejudice and a godless culture.

Is it what makes the rich trample on the poor or what makes the poor transfigure into protean beasts thirsty for the blood of the rich by various cybercrimes namely advanced fee fraud.

Is it what makes kings reek of delectable ornamental oils and costly sweet scents in the midst of abject poverty while both rich & poor chant rhythmically - "one God, one love" in prayer houses.

or is life's worth akin to the eternal subjugation of a larger group while the fields of the minor clan are turned into wasteland for the generations here and yet unborn or the stifling group of marginalization & economic oppression as it sinks its bloody fangs in the voiceless and vulnerable as they throng in drove to the gate of salvation.

Is it worth the life of a child, a pregnant mother, struggling father, son, brother and innocent by-standers as they are cut into unrecognizable pieces, caught in the grasps of dirty bombs taped to the pew of worship centres, local market, schools and hospitals. It is what makes men rip each other apart like sharks without any trace of humanity under the pretext of business or the aroma from blood dripping from the veins of human lambs - an article of offering for ritualist all for the power and glory.

is it the appetite for power at all cost, to sit majestically at the right hand of holiness at the detriment of your neighbours' well-being. yet the good book says "avoid meat that let your brother fall"

or is it the music of disharmony as we propagate subtle hate messages sew like mural among the fabric of spirituality. Or is it conspiracy of the brutes with the reins of power whose hands our lives might be taken easily. or the fate of countless lives as they are cut down like timber by faceless assassins while they  say "there's no cause for panic" and snickers behind camera lights to the plights of the 'masses' while their lives and properties are carried away.

Is it the fear of the law when we 'ordinary people' have committed no crime or the impunity when it comes to a few ordained holinesses usually dressed as scandalous as their 

abominable acts. The jowls dripping of stolen fat form the nations purse.

Or is it the miscarriage of justice in the courts of the land as money changes hands while the lives of the poor survivors who are the result of the corrupt system, hang in a balance. They would rot in prison because they are children of faceless nobodies.

And the emissaries on their high horses assigned to announce good news to their land content themselves with choice foods & exotic wine while his people languish under the fiery weight  of hunger and disease. These famished faces have natural economic resources beneath their ancestral territories yet only one person eats all. 

The people by unspoken agreement do not see this evil instead they glamourise the open show of mediocrity and pure wickedness (millions die from greed) as he often turns in only negative balance (less than zero % subvention). Every day  he loots, pillages and kills his own people from his high horse. yet in all of these evil  against his people's humanity, They refuses to acknowledge his wickedness. They become foot soldiers (media machinery) at destroying other peoples's children behind an invisible wall of rivalry.

Is it what makes people admissible to death row in the nation's health institutions over the basic tenuous and preventable diseases as there are no or low resources for the sick. yet the rulers of the land who vowed by the Hippocratic oath - "you before us" bleed us daily to shock as they cart away serious money all in the name of medical tourism.

How about the numbness for action...for pressure? How about the lethal silence...our collusion with the evil forces of the land that continue to pith the North against the South?

That's more to life than we can begin to imagine.

Culture, mutual respect, the simple gesture of kindness to our neighbours. "Love your neighbour as yourself" - the good book says. It is a spiritual law as it is a natural one. 

It is also a mathematical symbol. Life is love and love is life. 

None is mutually exclusive. The worth of life residing in us - humans, is the worth of our humanity, is the worth of love.