Submitted By: Bethel Nwaogwugwu

You call it Freetown in Sierra Leone
Most besieged town in the World
In Freetown; death and amputation unleashed
With morbid recklessness and gay abandon

In Freetown ; opinion and speech freedom under siege
In Freetown; stench from littered bodies made air not free
Tabernacles besieged by Freetown Freebooters

Freetown fields; not free from land mines
Freetown fields; not free for food crops
In Freetown; in fact, most free in the world are not free
Freetown has no Freeman

Freetown nymph have lost their virginity freedom
In Freetown; free pardon are not free
In Freetown; Freethinkers are not free
In Freetown; Freewill is no free

With all these frenzied and free impunity in Freetown
With all these seismic activities in Freetown
With all these siege mentality in Freetown
Yet you call it Freetown?

©Bethel Nnaemeka Nwaogwugwu, 2002
Facaulty of Law
University of Calabar