POEM: Being at War With Nigeria and “The Pledge” by Prayerlife Nwosu

In the face of inhumane treatments, chaos, killings, marginalization, hatred, insecurity, human rights abuses that has inwardly characterized the most populous country, here comes a message, poem of orientation and re-orientation as well as hope to all and sundry for a better tomorrow of individual and collective dreams in both past and recent times; The Pledge.

The poem pointed all the areas of the country’s (in review) existence with a very sharp contrast of what it normally used to be and as programmed and designed by its founding fathers:

The pledge

Dear great Africa’s giant

Labors of your past heroes were gallant

They died defending your unity

Why forget their death with no sanity?

They even pledged to Nigeria their county

Never to become objects of mockery

They dedicated their special lottery

Why pay them with blows on the artery?

They fought with their hearts and might

To guide our leaders right

Like watchmen, they slept not at night

Nigeria they placed at a great height

Indeed a nation bound with freedom?

How have your states become Sodom?

Even your citizens are left with no income

Yet you make a great kingdom?

Your people pray for a direction of noble cause

But corruption has remained your noble curse

Do you really have a lofty height to attain?

Or you have salaries and pensions to retain?

In your anthem you call compatriots

What a call to use them like chariots

As you have folded arms over bloody riots

Quit getting thugs to snatch their ballots

Oh yes you built students reading libraries

Yet behind every library are hidden briberies

Your leaders of tomorrow are now drug addicts

Yet you proffer solutions in audit

Terrorism and rape have become a culture

Still you arrive last like a vulture

Do you still uphold your honor and glory?

What a sad story to make a history.

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