June 2, 2020

In This Poem, Sterling Bank MD, Abubakar Suleiman Illuminates

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They ask me

Why I have a voice
When I could
Silently
Say nothing
Do no wrong

I say
I do not exist
To scrape a dime
Or a billion or two
And be done, buried

I exist
To leave a dent
Make a gaping hole
In all that injustice
All that is wrong with us

I exist to matter.

N.B: Abubakar Suleiman is the Managing Director /CEO of Sterling Bank. He contributed this poem from Lagos.

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