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Poem - Nigeria Sinkhole by lordthunderbolt(m): 10:21pm On Jan 20, 2017 |
NIGERIAN SINKHOLE We are sorry Nigeria For all the hysteria Our ancestors malaria Has cursed us with paranoia Our fore fathers Sold hate to their brothers Who were hurt by strangers Who they helped from the panthers Ever since Dan fodio spilled blood Our land has been filled by blood thirsty hoardes Our fathers sold their children for snuff The others sold all their lineage for salt! We are sorry Nigeria for all the dishonesty Even if we try to do things honestly Our conscience fries every hope of chastity It's not of our making to uphold pure honesty! We have failed to develop our lands The few who try,steal from the poorest in the land They build their mansions and become popular demand While their oppressors only offer Libation to the gods underground We are a city filled with curses! Wicked men with few purses While they aimlessly try to repel this evil forces They boast of how wicked they have been to others cases While we look to America and Europe! We've tied our peace to a strange rope Our dances to this foreign cultural troupe Betrays the very creativity our fore fathers held as hope! No race is as resilient as Nigerians! Our civilised elite are the monsters and barbarians! Who taught us impunity mixed in religious for puritanians Religious folks yet fickle Nigerians We are sorry for trusting our oppressors! Our leaders side with the very puveryors Our cultural heritage! The ancient plan with the surveyor Lost to the greed of our first ancestors No country hates it's citizens like Nigeria! If the jets don't bomb you! The police will create hysteria If the army don't shoot protesters The navy will kill traditional distillers! We are sorry Nigeria Where we celebrate political thieves And shame hard work because they are not from your place! We allow ethnic bigots to determine the barometer of excellence While these frustrated brains weep! We all suffer with our teeths Am sorry Nigeria! I wished you could call me Liberia! Or celebrate me like Monrovia Yet you choose to make me look like Nigeria! Am sorry Nigeria You have sold every item of justice! While you seek peace! Where there is justice isn't there peace? While you look for peace after you miss! Am sorry I am a Nigerian Wishing things were eligaritarian But our masters of deceit are the evil praetorian That has sold love for ethnic circadian I am not from your tribe But I am a Nigerian! See me as that Not your ethnic judgements! I am a Nigerian! Not Nyamiri Not Uneghe Not Afonja Not an infidel! Pure of blood Different in acts Soft in heart Livened with audacity I am that Nigeria of your dreams That unbelievable dream I am that dream That Nigeria of your dream The dream away from the oppression Armed forces brutality Religious crisis and ethnic segregation! That is my Nigeria! We are sorry For all these dreams Are just in my head When I wake! The horrors are the daily nightmares! Pharm odudu Akpaete 08064447793 2 Likes |
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