For Nigeria and Nigerians (especially Nairalanders )



SHOWERS OF FREEDOM

Rain on me, refresh my troubled spirit.
The days have been long, the journey has been arduous.
Quench my thirst, I long for you.

They told us we'll be free, they showed us a future we couldn't see.
Now the future's past, still we wait;
We press on
Towards a future unknown.
Rain on us, quicken our spirits.

Rain on us, wash away our tears
Of years long gone.
Wash away the sweat
From long days in the sun.
We cup our hands to you, fill them.
We raise our eyes to you, cleanse them.
That our sight may be unblurred,
That we may see a new vision.

Rain on us. Drench us and seep into our souls.
Melt the shackles that constrain our minds, melt the bonds that halt our progress.
Sweep away the thorns that cross our path.
Stir up the tide of change that hurls us to our envisioned destiny of total freedom.

Because we waited, because we persevered...
Independence rain, showers of freedom,
We command you to pour!
Soak up the buried seeds of our forbears!
Let them sprout in victory that we may shelter in their shades!
Let them bear fruit for our progeny as a monument to us!

Independence rain, Freedom's showers;
Quench our thirst, we long for you.


Happy 56th Independence Anniversary!

nice write up dear

Wow cool!
posts like this should grace the fp on a day like this lalasticlala

Ok nah

Wow!

Amazingly worth it

nice one

see short one here:
am fifty six check the gun (African map)
I am the trigger
boom! the western hill is bigger
Wa, knowledge speaks
Zo, resilience at the peak!
Bia, industrialism is your door knob
my quiver zuckerberg's hob nob

IssyGenius:
nice one see short one here: am fifty six check the gun (African map) I am the trigger boom! the western hill is bigger Wa, knowledge speaks Zo, resilience at the peak! Bia, industrialism is your door knob my quiver zuckerberg's hob nob

you are independent -OYO

NIGERIA 56yrs report card
electricity..............F9
education.............E8
prostitution..........A1
good road.............D7
banking sector......E8
bombing................B2
creativity..................D7
telecomunicatn....E8
security....................F9
corruption...............A1
cash emberzumnt.A1
leadership...............F9
Economy ......….,F9
Hunger .............D7
Happy newmonth don't mind them

Very nice poem but Buhari does not want the rain to shower on Nigerians. I love the writer

freedom on papers and media houses... we are still political, economical and social slaves. we still need moses to save us from this bunch of pharaohs

Nigeria increasingly becoming a mirage to the youths of the Nation. The leaders of yesterday still holding to today's prospects, only to hand over tomorrow to their Children. The poor, talented and capable hands of the Nation without background have continue to beg in their fatherland. May posterity's judge and Judge CME to the aid of the Nation.

illusions
pls r u from wonderland?
writing poems for the same old faces from
independent.
their children r warming up for the seat
n u r here writing peoms.

An irony for the one i wrote last year. Despair and it continues.