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Nigeria At 59: If Nigeria Was A Book - ARA by gistvicconnects: 6:42am On Oct 01, 2019 |
@Gistvic.com ARA is a spoken word poet/artiste, writer, and composer, with a passion to use his works to proclaim the gospel of Christ and preach hope and love to the nations. The spoken word poem, "If Nigeria Was A Book" was written and performed by ARA at the biggest slam in Nigeria War of Words Season 8. The poem carries encoded messages of the faults in the land, how to make things better and a message of hope. LYRICS: IF NIGERIA WAS A BOOK Chapter one, paragraph one Of this book I’m about reading to you From the table of the best-selling author of all-time selling off peace Says… Once upon a time in a land Precious was every dime in this land Where agriculture and politics Walked hand-in-hand Unlike the movies, see there’d be no end to this book But I’d beg for roles to be switched in the script The minor casts contesting to be co-writers too But corruption’s hard work is well written upon the manuscript If Nigeria was a book It’d be incomparable to a novel, a dictionary or an encyclopedia It would be the daily times that are short of guardians, enabling the vanguard land a punch below the belt of the Nation A land with thousands of hungry mouths to feed Yet we’ve got so much meat we keep beefs in our heart Even closer than we keep our neighbors So, it’d be our pleasure to kill citizens like fowls to ensure the safety of our cows The distribution of this book can be banked on anytime any day, reaching the east, the west, the south and even up north But the tale told in this book won’t be of guaranteed trust but of standard chattered (pronounced as shattered) Fidelity evaporating into the skye Because at First there was no union So it only makes sense that our Zenith is only an eco (pronounced as echo) It would be a book down casting Integrity and sincerity At the promotion of vote castings called democracy With little or no difference at all When compared to tyranny Flipping flaunted fables Sighting salted sugars Touching technical tattered twinkles Glittering from afar but disgusting and irritating, releasing the venom of retrogression This would be the diary of a nation soaring on the wings of chickens Giant as tall as kindergarten pupil’s Corruption the lotion that causes citizens to glow And frustration the golden smile the society knows God has given this land amazing writers and authors But failure’s not one of us; if Nigeria was a book We wouldn’t be the fiction of failure’s creativity But the drama of hard work’s consistency ‘Cause in this script I’d be a character, as well as you We’d be the characters that would come forth from the pages We’d be the Goosebumps on this author, never to return to the cages ironically called pages ‘Cause unrelentingly we will fight for ages Against the friendly-façade, self-centered, and looting-loving jailer of an author That wants to keep us locked up In togetherness, YES! We will fight! ‘Cause then, like singular notes in harmony, Nigeria would make a perfect score sheet Producing a melodious tone in symphony that never settles at the minor but the major! The major chord needed to forge the right key to open up the golden treasure buried in the greenness of our land! So, yes if Nigeria was a book I’d have it in my hand and every single word in my mind Even though it is tattered I know the best things in life do not always appear fine! So, Yes, if Nigeria was a book, I’d read it!!! Source: https://www.gistvic.com/2019/10/nigeria-at-59-if-nigeria-was-book-ara.html
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