Ours is a Society

Ours is a backward society

A society where every twenty-one year old lady whether they're in the university or not, jobless or ambitionless, wants to get married

And they'd do anything

To get pregnant

And have an elaborate conjugal ceremony

They are feminists with misplaced priorities 

In their younger years of feminist activism, marriage should never be a goal, an achievement, a milestone, or a yardstick with which to benchmark the girl child 

But in their older years, their brains become inverted 

And the marriage they now aspire to, they eventually become infidels in it

It was never a principle for them to build, anyway 

They just saw the crowd go in a direction, and followed mindlessly 

Ours is a society built on fraud

A society where dishonesty wins every other time

We celebrate theft and castigate ingenuity 

We have invented euphemistic synonyms for thieves 

We call them politicians, yahoo boys, civil servants, investors, influencers, celebrities, students, national -- union, the list goes on 

But we can't forget "pastors" 

These ones are the god of men

They are probably the biggest catastrophe in a society already saddled with disaster 

Their specialty is creating religious bifurcation until they successfully dichotomise the society

They become the proponents of conspiracy theories pitching the poor masses as oppositions

People whom they know can't think for themselves irrespective of their socioeconomic attainment 

Their religious clothing is merely for political and financial gains

Their lies can never and should never be scrutinised

Ours is a society of stagnation

A society where nothing becomes better

Worse is usually the case

All the things we thought were abnormal while growing up, have become the norm

The things we could almost vow would never happen, have happened a zillion times and even celebrated

We have thrown values out of the window

Did we ever have values, even?

All we worship is money

Worse, not naira

Like I said, we have no values

Our currency isn't any different

It gets devalued consistently just as our society 

Our god is dollars

And she is the one we pray to