BIRD OF NIGERIA

Wave your wings every season, Wave green and white wings without treason. You will always continue to spread that feather, Even as you get more wider.
This bird wave at us everyday in peace. And we breathe the air of peace. Sometimes we sleep and some others we dreams, And we see nightmare in our dreams.
Living, sometimes into hands of a rebeller, But that can only make the bird get stronger.
Vultures will not tear this bird apart, Even if everything should fall apart. This bird will not stop flying, Even as it fly without wing.
Bird, fly to every corner, tell the police, There is every need for justice.
Go and wave your feather to the school, Tell them to swim in ken like a man on the pool.
Go and wave to the north, tell them we're one. Now wave to the south, tell them we're one. Go and wave to the east, tell them we're one. Now wave to the west, tell them we're one
Smile with your teeth painted white and green, Smile, because even our land is green.
-WARRI STANLEY