Flogging the Saints

They spend days spewing words

Recalling words wove in silence

Contesting their basis and testing their truth

Some affirm the potency of actions

While others discount their veracity

They spoke with effortless effrontery

And a comfortable zeal

Challenging the very memory bed

Speeches fraught with incisive noisy interjections

Sometimes to confuse and discredit truth

They go back and forth

Drilling facts, overviews and counter-views

Seeking the falsehood in the truth

Served in precious hours

Precious hours on count

Flogging the saintly truth of time

The litigants flog and over floor

The good in their words of claims

And denials

Just to prove themselves

Before mortal arbiters

While the immortal King

Admires these lively theatres

 

    KYB signs

17/1/14

@ Gbawe-Bulemin, Accra