STRATEGIC STUDIES.
POEM OF THE CENTURIES.
Man was tricked much by the devil
Man became a good agent of devil
Became very very wicked and evil
Man is selfish, desperately wicked
Man is self-centered and crooked
Man grabs everything under the Sun
Weaker Men are always on the run
Land causes Man to kill fellow Man
Woman causes Man also to kill Man
Money causes Man to kill fellow Man
GOD felt very sorry HE created Man
Felt like never ever created Woman.
Man began killing with a bare hand
Man began killing for a mere Land
Man kills Man for just little money
Man’s killing for money not funny
Man kills Man for woman’s sake
Man’s life now under serious stake
Evil men always like to spill blood
They like blood as it flows like flood,
Man now thinks to save himself
Thinks best to protect himself
Man never folded his two arms
Man invented dangerous arms
Man invented destructive arms
Wherever lies a man’s protection
There lies another man’s destruction
Arms race is not like a rat race
Arms race is a real big deal race.
Arms race is now a necessary evil
Arms race is now an amazing evil
It’s outcome is always very tragic
Arms race is necessarily strategic
Not holding arms is non strategic
Not welding arms is grave danger
Expose brave ranger to grave danger
Makes one very open to any offense
Leaves one without any defense
Makes one very open to all attacks
One can’t even hide in any barracks
Welding arms will secure your life
Welding arms will insure your life
Not welding arms is warrant of death
Not welding arms is a kiss of death.
In ancient time of simple slave trade
Slave masters are all of same grade
Slaves were common commodities
Slavery traded within communities
Humans beings sold like an animal
Man to Man became a real cannibal
Men traded strictly for very little cash
The unarmed treated like mere trash
Communities captured by raw force
Unarmed Men always at a heavy loss
The unarmed Men always for rapture
They can never escape from capture
Men of arms gained the upper hand
Unarmed Men tied to till only land
Money and arms made a landlord
Money and arms made an overlord.
Colonial masters did the same thing
They really committed the worst sin
Europeans created African countries
For a ravage and rape for centuries
Europeans tore African society apart
In Igbo Land really ‘Things Fall Apart’
Conquered using gunboat diplomacy
They killed Men without any mercy
Some translocated across the Sea
To produce cocoa powder for tea
Translocated across Atlantic Ocean
To produce crops near Pacific Ocean
Europe twisted African man’s arms
Subdued Africa with superior arms
Europe plundered African arts, crafts
That Africa has wicked witchcrafts
African masks, artifacts, costumes
Were stolen to European museums
Europe plundered all things in Africa
Africa reduced to a beggarly Africa
Europe plundered African economy
Europe killed African peace, harmony
Europe destroyed fine African culture
Europe ruined African superstructure
Europe really underdeveloped Africa
They used African slaves in America
Europeans ditched Africans in Mud
Pretended to have given Africa God.
After WWII, the world became bipolar
Has now turned wonderfully unipolar
There was ideological fight to finish
No ideology ever wanted to diminish
In fight between powerful USA block
A fight with the powerful USSR block
It was a transnational political affair
It was transnational economic affair
Both were struggling for dominance
Both were struggling for relevance
War world for imposing of capitalism
War world of imposition of socialism
KGB in espionage, counterespionage
CIA in espionage, counter espionage
CIA killed Governments, Presidents
KGB killed Governments, Presidents
USSR Generals were 4 showmanship
USA Generals are into brinkmanship
Double agents had USSR weakened
Double agents have USA tightened
This was 1945-1989 time of cold war
This is the East versus the West war
It entered into the realm of arms race
Non wanted to lose weight and face
USA really acquired very deadly arms
USSR acquired very nice deadly arms
Both came to many round table talks
Both engaged many limitations talks
Both engaged in nuclear proliferation
Both engaged in deadly proliferation
USA with strategic defense initiative
USSR with tactical defense initiative
USSR was externally very aggressive
Internally was extremely oppressive
USA was externally very aggressive
Internally USA is extremely carefree
Assembly free, words free, life free
USSR battled with internal squabble
Couldn’t control her internal trouble
Leaders chose perestroika, glasnost
This led to USSR’s speedy implosion
Expired without a nuclear explosion
USSR sowed seeds of her own death
USA carry the seeds of own rebirth.
In Middle East, there are much fire
Consequences of violence very dire
Many Resolution,Treaty and Accord
To keep them, people can not afford
They are to tie, have all men to bind
These are what people never mind
There’s very very little, no love lost
Killing one’s enemies is under must
Some people play good guys game
Some people play bad guys game
Good guys are owners of the land
The bad guys struggle for the land
Good guys democratic and stainless
Bad guys are terroristic and faceless
Good guys have the best technology
The bad guys chant worst doxology
Good guys live in modern global age
The bad guys live as in old stone age
There’s this long intractable theory
This is an insurmountable theory
There’s much dragging for all lands
Real blood stained many more hands
There’s always many wars everytime
In the night and always in daytime
Much struggles for Promised Land
Land with better rocks or better sand
People want to be in troubled waters
Who grabs what, what really matters.
From glass house throw not stones
From glass house never fire drones
Fire not any scud, ballistic missiles
Even though from a thousand miles
What you sow you must surely reap
What you brew you must surely sip
There is always a very big price tag
Measures you cannot ever out drag
Always be your own brother’s keeper
In love remain very close and deeper
Wherever you go there’s confusion
Wherever you go there’s disillusion
Let people be allowed to have guns
So some people will not play puns
Some believe in the balance of terror
Some very afraid of seeing a horror
Be on your guard, be well behaved
Always play cool, wise and be saved.
© Onochiengwu Obuna Esq.
(Ike Nkanu).
On 1st December 2025 at the
Ministry Of Justice Enugu State by 9:09 am.
