I don’t know why we keep placing our faith in human beings.
Human beings are not good people.
I don’t know when we’ll learn.
Look around.
Look at Benue State (Nigeria).
Look at your own country.
Look at history.
Look at the world.
From the beginning,
we’ve proven,
again and again,
that cruelty comes more easily than kindness.
That power corrupts more often than it serves.
That we choose self-preservation over justice.
Silence over truth.
I got tired.
Yes, we are capable of great love.
But also of unimaginable cruelty.
And far too often,
it’s the cruelty that wins.
I got tired.
I had so much faith in evolution.
In the idea that we were becoming more conscious, more aware.
But now I see
we’re just getting better at hiding the rot.
Better at pretending.
The disregard for human life isn’t new.
It’s just more visible now.
And somehow more ignored than ever.
I got tired.
What else is left to do when the world keeps screaming and no one is listening?
I got tired.
We say “never again.”
And it happens again.
And again.
And again.
Just masked differently in every generation.
People will kill people.
They’ll justify it.
And they’ll sleep just fine after.
I got tired.
We keep expecting angels
In a world built by wolves.
I got tired.
We live in a world where the rich are celebrated and the poor?
The poor die from the lack of what is manmade.
While others have surplus.
Not plucked from the heavens,
No.
A choice.
And so I stopped waiting for people to be good.
I stopped making excuses for evil dressed up as policy.
I stopped calling survival “resilience” when it’s really just pain.
I got tired.
And I finally accepted,
We humans?
We are not good.
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