How long should we bear this fire?
How long can we bear the wire
that tears across our palms with rigour?
That shreds our palpable flesh with vigour?
How long shall we live in delusion?
How long can we tuck in the gall of confusion?

Yes, we are one!
So they say!
So we say!
So they tell us!

Yes, we are one because we reside in the same house.
Yes we are one because we look at ourselves and see a semblance of relativity.
Yes we are one because the white dude says so!

As i strode along the way.
All i see is hate.
As i turn my head to see
All i espied is loath.
This bitterness is drying my bones.
This bitterness is decaying my soul.

We hate ourselves so much. We love our own so much. Why put together 2 angered cocks to fight to their death in a cage?
Why light the match near the gas and expect no explosion?
Why pour the powder in the gun and expect no shot after pulling the trigger?

Who can take away this hatred?
Can Standd tell us why we reap so much when we've planted nothing?
Can Achebe tell us how things were before they fell apart?
North keep on hating.
West keep on hating.
East keep on hating.

Oba you can drown the easterners in "your" land, why can't you, you hate them after all.

Aboki you can slaughter the easterners in the North, it's just your norm!
Hey Mr Chinedu you can dupe the silly Mallam, it's used to you, isn't it?

We're just a lot of silly beings, aren't we? Oh, you say we're not? Then go out into the streets and notice how many times your heart twinges and how the lump of bitterness, loathing and hatred rise in you just at the sight of a Nigerian that don't share same ethnicity with you!
Stop trying, focus your mind.
Stop struggling, release yourself to the awful truth that no matter what "THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD"

Mescopaul.