THE EAGLES’ MASTERS by Kuye Samuel
The Eagles’ Masters
Keep changing Eagles’ Manager Roasters
Under the guise of the greed to win,
Making Brother-managers crucified for venial sin
While imported managers luxuriate in our wealth
And disarm the strength of the brother’s growing-army of health.

How can changing teachers and interrupting lectures
Help to ascertain balanced structures?
Bonfrere, Troussier, Milotinovic, Lagerback,
If they did perfect beyond our brothers’ lack,
Let history show of the condemned patriotism
Of the Eagles’ Masters’ idiocies and egoism.

‘‘We’ll give you two hundred instead of five or fifteen
But only one hundred will be yours, think, instead of fifteen.’’
‘‘Then it’s fifty-fifty’’
‘‘No, it’s not! It’s not fifty-fifty.
You, one person only, will have fifty percent,
But, we.. we’ll manage to share fifty percent.’’

‘‘But the people, your people, not all think your brother’s failing’’
‘‘Really? Then we may not fire him like we’re willing.
We can suggest and summon an adviser from the white caves
We do owe our brothers salary and some raves
But we can pay you a year salary in advance.
Permit me to give you an instance

It’ll be easy for you; you may not need to give a piece of advice to the settings
Till you bid us farewell
Just partner us in some legal lootings’’
‘‘If those are your claims
It’s your land
Hire my idle but eager hand
But you face the blames’’

The Eagles Masters
A brother gets us a long-loved-twice-got golden cup
And from the wheel chair lifts us up
And then while we gain some ground
We think that brother’s not capable to take us around
We’re good in the display of heartless, discouraging and scary gratitude
The Eagles Masters attitude
Has been to anticipate and actualize failures
For then they can suckle funds to cause greater failures-
Failures which the need to solve will be a chance to eat

Do the Masters care for the Eagles?
Do they care about the greatness of the Eagles?
Do the care about how high the Eagles ought to fly?
Do they really want the Eagles to Soar or to Die?
Are they not tired of causing disruptions in the name of leadership?

How can changing lecturers and interrupting lectures
Help to ascertain balanced structures?
We’re not oblivious of the misbegottens
Perhaps we just lack the courage or the ‘how’ to make corrections
Perhaps we just don’t have options...