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Tears Of The Gods-by Jazzgreen by Jazzgreen(m): 3:29am On Feb 05, 2013

We are the gods of your fathers,and fathers of your fore-fathers.We were a father to you and you,a children to us.We secured your lands,saved you from plight,and maintained peace and unity in your lands.Our demands were light,your goats and your fowls we delighted in.We demanded not a flying house(jet), neither a running hut(car).We blessed your bans,your harvest overflowed. Your cattle and your goats multiplied as the sands by the shore.
It seemed all was well so we took a break to see the glory at the west. Are the sons of ODUDUWA asleep?, There we saw some strangers in our land,who were they? The PORTUGUESE, they have come to trade with us peace. Behold a man filled with courage,the son of the soil with his veins filled with the fluid of bravery; JAJA from OPOBO,he rose in defense of the land but.......
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There is silence,the strangers you trade with in peace are wolves in sheep clothing,JAJA is dead,JAJA has been killed.
Boom! Boom!! Boom!!!,we hav'nt heard such a sound from within our lands,yes! and its definitely not from our own sons. The bigger strangers are here, the brothers of the same people that exploit our lands from the west; the BRITISH, they sound the barrel,they enslave our sons. No way! The gods are not dead,AMADIOHA rose in anger, the great warrior, his sons were free at first.SANGO was soft on his side. The north were wit a man as strong as a god; the EMIRS,yes they gave in too quickly for a man is not half of a god.
Now our lands are in danger,we all smiled as AMADIOHA fought with bravery,protecting our land from the east... Have you heard the story of a son who betrayed his father? Yes!, the east took a ransom and betrayed AMADIOHA;warrant chiefs, that's their name.
But a new thing has come into the land,the strangers come with a strange god. The ARABIAN god now dwell in the NORTH and the HEBREW god in the EAST,the WEST shared among them. Were is the position of your gods who built this land and brought you into it?. We have been overthrown. All hell broke loose when our own children banished us from within their lands. They cherish the gods of their slave masters more than their own gods;their fathers who made them kings than slaves.We were banished and chased to the FOUTA DJALON where we wept daily for the folly of our children; our tears gathered as a river and assembled at the Niger.
We watched you from our land of exile,we saw only but smiles on your faces.Wat is the joy in slavery?-question of the gods.
It was 1st Oct,1960,you were free from your masters;in human thought. But what happened to their foreign gods?did the gods leave with them?no they still dwell amongst you ;now your days of torture begin,for its beta being slave to men than slave to gods.Independence you called it but in the language of the gods-a cage of terror. Was it that far?were the gods wrong?not at all,7yrs later,we heard cries,the sons of AMADIOHA were wasting in the north. Now a brother shall rise against his own blood for they forsook their true gods,they forget their origin,they're but strangers in their own land. Yes,they're no more brothers but enemies. The sons of the ARABIAN god,they have risen against their enemies,the sons of the HEBREW god.AMADIOHA being a warrior could not watch his sons die like fowls. He rose in anger and took unto flesh,IKEMBA ODIMEGWU OJUKWU,he was not less than the incarnate of AMADIOHA. He fought for the freedom of his sons from their former brothers but now enemies.the HEBREW god was silent as he pleaded not a prince of violence.AMADI suppressed the ARABIANS down east,across the south,to the west.Then,there is a great thud!... the pillar is fallen, the south which is also called east,the same people AMADIOHA fight for,they have betrayed him,they
have sold him to the ARABS. The god is defeated,NO! a god is never defeated,the people have defeated their own selves,they have chosen folly over wisdom."TO YOUR TENTS OH SONS OF THE LAND" but be it a notice to you all that "THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME" 'cos the prize of your folly shall surely come upon you,not so fast anyway-prophesy of the gods.

The battle has ended but has just begun, we sat and watched you kill yourselves on daily bases,a day for a head,a day for a blood. In the year 2000,it broke out at its peak again,its d ARABS attacking the HEBREWS.we pleaded AMADI to go back to battle but he refused,he made the right choice anyway;twice has he been fooled,twice betrayed by his own sons. Then the now sons of the Hebrew god rose in defense -it was brutal and bloody. We wept for the blood poured. Now it has ended,"warn your children against this violence",our words to the Arabian and Hebrew gods.They paid heed till the Arabs broke the truce,but the Hebrews fought not back,it continued all through the years and they fought not back.Till 2012,we could hold it no more,we let our tears out,it over flooded your houses,your homes were filled,the banks couldn't hold the tears.
Tears couldn't stop it so we took our stand,afterall you're not our sons any longer but the sons of the strange gods.
Now the same south that betrayed their own father now cry for help. ''Marry the terror you brought''.

"MAN SHALL PERISH TILL HE LEARNS THAT HE IS NOTHING WITHOUT HIS OWN GODS"

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