NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - UNEMPLOYMENT A TRIGGER OF CRIME

Ngozi Olivia Osuoha is a young Nigerian poet/ writer and a graduate of Estate Management. She has some experience in banking and broadcasting. She has published some works abroad in some foreign magazines in Ghana, Liberia, India and Canada, among others. She enjoys writing.

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       UNEMPLOYMENT A TRIGGER OF CRIME


 Shattered heart with a sorrowful song
 Unheard voice writing a faint note
 Broken wings, much uncaptured
 Spiral like a whirlwind
 Viral like an ill wind,
 Longer than the train
 Complex with coaches
 Multiple in phases and stages,
 Unemployment, a trigger of crime.

 Boring, belittling and burdensome
 Lonesome, worrisome and cumbersome
 Tempting, traumatizing and terminating
 Misguiding, misleading and mistreating
 Debasing, degrading and devastating
 Disgusting, disturbing and discouraging
 Undignifying, ungilding and unyielding
 Bewitching, besieging and bewildering
 Unemployment, a trigger of crime.
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> Beast of hate, brother of ignorance
> Son of wickedness, father of backwardness
> Pain of parents, ache of guardians
> Bill of family, anger of relatives
> Burden of friends, rage of mates
> Blindly enslaving the mind
> Excruciatingly burning the future
> Frustratingly, crumbling strengths
> Unemployment, a trigger of crime.
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> A bulldozing cankerworm
> Dwindling our growths,
> Dimming our lights
> Fertilizing our weaknesses
> Killing our green hope,
> The harlot raping our youths
> The thief stealing our dreams
> The ring of prejudices:
> Unemployment, the trigger, the crime.
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