WHO STOLE OUR CHANGE?

We unanimously agreed
To CHANGE our king
Because he and his chiefs seems
To have lost it
And we all appeared rudderless.
We cried for THE CHANGE
We prayed for THE CHANGE
We worked for THE CHANGE
We campaigned for THE CHANGE
Yes, we got a change.

We got  a change
But NOT THE CHANGE
For people changed in persons
But the land still cries and bleeds
In the hands of our change agents.

Who stole OUR CHANGE?
Or who changed OUR CHANGE?
For this is not the CHANGE
Which we kept vigils for
This is not THE CHANGE
Which we toiled for
This is not THE CHANGE
Which we thumbed.

Who stole our CHANGE?
THE CHANGE we worked for
Has a human face
And works for us as humans
THE CHANGE we cried for
Carries no cudgel
And pampers rather than beating.

Who stole our CHANGE?
Like an endangered bird
Our CHANGE has flown away
And we are left to savour
The stench of a change
With animal face
And cudgels in both hands.

Who stole OUR CHANGE?
Sincerely, who stole OUR CHANGE?