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An Ode To Nigeria by exx(m): 7:17am On Oct 02, 2015 |
[center] I have always wondered why Why the beautiful seem always so sad Maybe there is a price to beauty unknown But known only to those who really are beautiful Just like you my dearest Nigeria I look at you and you seem so sad On a day you should celebrate Yet you seem so sad If I was to ask you of your pain The price of you beauty you have to pay I can only but wonder the answers you'd give Yes, answers cause I know it just can't be one So could be that your children Everyone of them you bore Yes, every one of them who came to life from your fruitful womb Have all refused to grow up Still seeking milk from your warm breasts At a time they should think of caring for you Holes drilled deep into the deepest parts of your being Your life blood, black rich and most precious in the world I know you wouldn’t have minded If your blood was spilled To feed all your children But NO it has been taken to give life to other women To feed the children of aliens While yours waste away in longing There was a time Nigeria You were the toast and desire of the world Adorned with beads of pyramids skin soft and oily eyes white like the fluff of cottons your hair full as a palm tree forest beautiful yes that’s who you were or are I can't tell now But yet you celebrate You children with you too I wish you had lambs and not kids Maybe your kids are the price your beauty You are not adored and respected as you should be Their love is set on an alien woman Yes, I see It would be painful for a mother to be rejected and then replaced by another woman your children don’t mind begging they don’t mind being servants to the children of the alien woman but why Nigeria Why have you been a bad mother Only a bad mother should be treated such What haven’t you done right for your lambs Ah, yes I see I see again I see how you shame When I speak of your firstborns The ones with whom you opened your womb The ones to whom your best was given They have taken for themselves For themselves and the future unborn Taken your promise Taken your hope But there are some of womb yet unknown Who cry when they see what has become you They were not fed your milk yet they love you You may not have done much for them Still they love you I await Nigeria I await the day Those who love you are given charge of you Then your beauty will blossom again And the world will bow at your feet [/center] 3 Likes |
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