ECHOES OF AGONY

Echoes of Agony

 Nigeria!

My motherland

So famous amongst the black lands

With unequalled unique strengths

Without grumbles compatriots led

Out of shame hunger arrests

Like a beautiful woman

In short of character, was divorced

For noise making she was recognized

Like an empty song without a word

Or a lonely tree in a desert-land

From afar, our house looks clean,

Come inside, it’s worst than a dustbin

From abroad it stinks

Like the pee of a beast

In fiasco, its government is piloted

In no time, I wish we could change

From ungodly-inhuman lifestyle of miscreants breeding,

Of unfulfilled promises and

Unreachable goals settings

Let’s make Nigeria ours

And Africa indeed by us be proud

Nigeria!

O! Great and handsome Nigeria

Why are you so naughty?

Like a thug of war

The executive with the judiciary fights

Between legislature and judiciary wrestles

Before time their wars linger

Like a smoulder, it burns without fire

In a calamity of power tussles

Under godfatherism tutelage

Before assembly, you made vows

Before God and angels, you read your manifestos

Before saints and sinners oath of office you took

Unto men and animals you’ve betrayed

Birds in chagrin, whisper of your failures

Here, in solace we quest

In anguish, we had become like the agama sobbing

Like owl at night, in doom we soar

From nowhere roaming to and fro

In search of power, all the earth strolled

Now approved, like harmattan blows

Ill-wind from no where shows

Till God comes, in Nigeria there’s no hope

Let’s pray, if only we can for a while wait

Nigeria will for sure be great someday

O! What a shame?

A nation, once by all adored

Abound by riches aggravated

By oil wealth, overnight escalated

By unity, its ladders were climbed in the past

By rapacity, its grave was dug at last

O! Oil-rich Nigeria

Long hobbled by political instability

Its future, hijacked by religious sham

The majority isolating the minority groups

Greed for selfish interest, everyday increasing

Love for ungodly and unpatriotic activities escalating

Unruly deeds on the run, like wildfire

Like the sun, its shadows are farther

O! What a shameful day

Corruption had resurfaced

Intertwined Nigerians firmly like Siamese twins

By greed, a land is embezzled

A surplus infrastructure in deficit

Due process had become a national Anthem

Law breaking had become the order of the day

Nigeria!

O! What a bad child from good parents

A nation blessed, yet cursed

A land sanitized, yet guilty

 A land cleansed, yet soiled

A name so melodious, yet disgusting

A home so hospitable, yet non-habitable