Tuesday 12 January 2016

They do me wrong
Who say I come
No more!
.......Opportunity.......

Hi, folks. Be out for the best your world can offer you now.
It's your right. Let no one, nothing deprive you of it.

1 comment:

  1. Ha-ha-ha!

    Hear
    The President of Nigeria announcing it
    We are independent
    Hear Nigeria’s governors on the screens:
    We are independent

    Hear the flutes and harpsichords
    Of this nation’s orchestras
    Peeling forth the tone:
    We are independent!

    Hear the wretched masses saying too
    We are independent!
    Hear the reverberations as they sing
    Across the flag of Nigeria
    Many are hungry, void of job
    Their future is rid of hope
    We are independent!

    Hear the hungry parents telling children
    Nigeria is independent
    See their hungry children clapping hands
    Singing the tone in schools
    That we may hear and dance with them
    We are independent!

    Hear the workers singing aloud
    We are independent
    Hear the pensioners yodeling
    We are independent
    Hear their Union’s chant of the song
    Along Nigeria’s pot-holed roads
    With empty pockets and haggard look
    We are independent!

    Hear schoolchildren chorusing it
    We are independent
    Hear their flutes and marching drums
    Banging out the hymn
    In a march-past past Obasanjo:
    Left…right! Left…right! Aye-ez-z right…!
    Their schools are cults, teachers are idle
    We are independent!

    Hear our policemen singing too
    We are independent
    In their wayward black or khaki brown
    Carrying their guns, their tools of terror
    Their eyes as red as blood
    Index finger clutching trigger
    Out-pockets bulging out
    Hol’it! Stop there! Open ya booth…!
    His mouth smells of beer
    His hand is searching your pocket
    His face black and hard – a type of igneous rock!
    We are independent!

    Hear our politicians hap’ly yelling
    We’re independent
    Hear these fat people stamp their feet
    Klump, klump, klump
    Across the flag of Nigeria
    But their thugs are fattening
    Who are daily paid in dollars
    Who kill and maim to give him seat
    We are independent, Nigerians…!

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