Nwafor Oji Awala

FAIR FUTILITY

It\'s gilded in bright colours 

Like a peacock butterfly;

It sparkles in splendour 
Like a diamond in the sun; 

When it rests, it rests
In confined dank darkness,
In a bowel of nightmare 
With what remains of a king:

a diet for forbidden creatures.

Now to what gain or profit
Are  the swellings of ego
Which defined and measured
His reign of majesty?