Hey brother! It's been a long time
I journeyed your land, what I saw?
Your roads are death traps
Your countryside so beautiful, truly majestic

Your environment so polluted
Your soil bleeding blood
Your people in rags, living off begging
And sheltered in uncompleted buildings

I heard you got independent from the British
But it seems your leaders lured
You into another slavery
The one I call slavery in New apparel
Slavery in guise of employment

I heard about the bridging in 1914
Isn't that when you got your name
But it's quite shocking
Hearing the demand for the bridge
be divided in 2021

I visited your schools
It's just another form of prison
Your classrooms in ruins
I pitied the future of your education

You remember the we are the leaders of tomorrow song?
I saw kids who Sang the song back then
Grown up living the life of a begger
Those kids never become the leader
Since the corrupt ones refused to die

This is the state of your nation brother
I pray you won't all loose your heads
From your herdsmen
Before you liberate yourself from the wrong of your leaders.

© Ogunsola Ayobami Samuel