SCRAMBLE FOR THE BOSS`S SEAT

SCRAMBLE FOR THE BOSS`S SEAT

Where were you when they left?

They took off very early this morning

Massa, Madam and the children: Harry and Dickson

They left as our indepenendence was proclaimed yesterday

And they handed power to our people.

Which of our brothers will live in this big house

They left behind?

Is it Atu our only agric engineer?

But I see the Agric Assistant (AA) is already moving in

I asked if I could continue to be his yardboy

He said he would think about it.

He has told Pa Bobe that he can stay on as his cook

To serve him as he served the Whiteman.

The nightwatchman is on leave and does not know what is happening.

The problem is that too many people believe they will succeed Massa

And become the big boss over everyone else on this Farm

But who will it be?

Oh, the Black man is black outside and black inside!

The government, the new government,  has appointed no one yet

Even so, Mr. Gregory has already occupied Mr. Morgan`s sumptuous office

He claims it`s his right because he was his direct assistant

And then there is Mr Akungwa trying to start Massa`s official Land Rover

The Whiteman  left it behind; perhaps it was too combersome

To carry all the way to London.

Oh I wish he had stayed

Look at the mess we`re already in

Everybody wants to be the boss now

When the boss was still here everyone knew his place.

Whatever is the case, who can run this place like Mr. Douglas?

Nobody! Aboslolutely nobody!

Yet none of them seems to know that

What a pity!