Sunday, April 22, 2012

THIS IS NOT THE LAND


The lines of this triangle are breaking
The bond of the union shaking
The hearts of the people hating
Aching with too much faking
Fear now lives in Nigeria
Its intrepid steps sound in every area
Seen in the eyes of little boys
Little boys fearful of boko’s toys
Boko’s guns, boko’s bombs
Turning every land space to tombs
O, this land of our fore-fathers
This is not the land, the land of our fore-fathers

All around, our green past’s dying fast
We blemish the sacrifices of our heroes past
Their children are left to die on the streets, ignored
Mothers spread legs for food, pain inured
Daughters establish enterprises around their waists
And the precious point becomes peanut for all to taste
Third legs linger through flesh and blood
And the girls wriggle; take the juices and scream ‘O God’
And when they die, the overfeds call them names
Ashewo, olonsho, but who takes the blames
O, this land of our fore-fathers
This is not the land, the land of our fore-fathers

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