Oh North, death has reared himself a throne lying far down in areas of your cover where the good, the better, and the best have all gone their eternal rest. In your circus of sky beneath, the melancholy waters now lie. So blend the turrets and shadows of you appears that all seem pendulous in air while from a proud tower death looks gigantically down with smiles to devour with its regular shatter of heart killing touches and war-like bewilderment through mélange of religious and ethnic discordance.

There open gaping graves that yawn for human swallow as death comes amidst nights to sight human dwells for strike. Day in and out, bloods meander forming oceanic banks for your soil's belly. Oh the blessed North - The onetime place of my heart - The home of agriculture; now, you have been deserted, desecrated with stinks of heart killing smells of unprecedented terror and famine that kills humanity with starvation, brutality and bitterness! Only few days ago, my brother-in-law, found in the pool of his own blood, amongst others all massacred. This is not you, oh North!

The killing waves in you have now a redder glow- Your hours breathing faint - Fear reigns, dominating minds in your harbor - Your human lives dive in death - As down down you settles devil rising from a thousand thrones of HELL for a seemingly endless battle against you and your dwellers. Oh North, how are the mighty fallen. When did you turn a laughing stock...a reference point for incompetence, stupidity, cowardice, evil and all that is bad to the rest of us Nigerians and the world? Truly, yours is a region afflicted as you seems finished crawling near to your grave whilst hope for redemption appear in apparent littleness.

When did you become so pitiful that people mocks you and heaps insults on you so easily? When did they start saying that you have ‘’no serious elements like vibrant youths to fight your enemies’’, and that you can’t even protect your own children and possessions anymore from touch of the devil? When did you become incapable of defending yourself against attacks of enemies slaughtering you in an orgy of mindless violence? When did you lose your strength, honor and your power? When did you lose your excellence, confidence, dignity and self-respect? When did you become so weak and so helpless?

Oh North, stay out from thy comforting hidey-hole, and take the battle to thy enemies - the visible devils living in you - to redeem your lost glory. And let thy dwellers stand their feet, search amongst themselves, for these enemies. Let them ingest the mellifluous song of courage to protect you staging a fight to obliterate your problems - be it government, terror squads, complicits, all under religious bigotry, and unreasonable divides from tribalistic craziness. This will serve a peculiar antidote to healing eternally, your seemingly almost incurable deadly injuries, and make you a better place to live again. North besieged with THORN... North now nut... but out of naught, the North should birth to glory. Oh North, here is my humble piece for a friend.

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Sounds like some Shakespeare shiii. You trying resurrect the nigahh or something?

the dying friend is not bothered
stop crying more than the bereaved

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The North will vote for Buhari over and over again, nothing to cry for, they will still bring out a dead candidate next election and impose to Nigerians.

But the north doesn't appear been pushed enough to the wall by their leaders, who incapacitate them mentally through illiteracy and abject poverty, so that they can always win their support during election with tokens. To me, the north doesn't deserve pity until they can pity themselves by fetching out the bad ones amongst themselves.