We are cripples walking in the land of the upright and hindered by our rights to have,basking in decayed infrastructure,hampered to access the land's natural endowment,impeded to own equal rights and justice,trampled upon by the democracy we all fought to have its independence,suffer adversely from insecurity and absolute denial of the life we deserve in the continent we claim to be a GIANT.Wanting to let the world know that we suffer is not my aim but speaking to the man reading this piece that we are the pain,we constantly languish in sorrow for reasons best known to the man that wears the crown.
If I was asked to say the reason I am scared,I would say to the world that I see racism amongst men of the same colour and origin as the rich gets richer and poor proceeds further into squalor.
If I was told to tell the pains in my heart,I would emphasize on the discomfort my people and I have suffered over the years from the policies our leaders make.
If I was called upon to narrate the history of my mother-land,I would proclaim the good news of years past when 30naira could buy my father a house built by government to alleviate his poor state.
If I was beckoned upon just for the sake of being heard,I would stand on the highest mountain to sing a great song of freedom,freedom from neglect,freedom from poverty,freedom from nepotism,freedom from the shackles of greed,freedom from the dungeon of hardship that has held us captive,freedom to enjoy the endowment of our land,freedom from the bitter whips of slavery lashed on us by dignitaries.
I hear the battleship of my people roaring in silence for the fear of death, like 'HOPE 1993' left to the world beyond from the strangled hostility of evil men,every boundary built by the uprising always gets its fair share of collapse,gradually turning our land to a home of non-resistance or non-existence. I say to every man that this is time for a turn around in the timeline of hurt,having in mind that we do not march on individually,but in one accord while we remain vigilant of the decoy to seperate one from another either by religion,tribe,language or politics.
I will never forget a great man who only saw the face of God in the faces of sanitation workers on April 3rd 1968,Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. Said and I quote 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' which has brought us to our history of heroism and a period of courage to stand for what is ours and not watch our possessions looted away,Do you say to yourself?, what will become of all I own if I stand for a just cause? Do you think in your mind?, if I do not speak up,I might have the chance to live longer? Do you propose in your heart?, that one day soon what I deserve will come to me?,you will have questions but never get the life changing results both for yourself and generations unborn for silence was all you gave in to when push came to shove,this clarion call is not of revolt that it should cause violence but divine from God to march on to victory and have the wall of deprivation fall,walk through the river of austerity and not be swallowed.
Listen to the wailing of our roots,Nigeria cries out loud that we take her back again from the hands of men strangling its honour and glory,Arise o' compatriots is the life we live as every of its stanza rightly calls upon us all to do all it takes to keep our beloved nation alive.We won't pledge in vain no more,we can't take the egyptian treatment any more,we have come out to say our brothers don't deserve to die unjustly,we need jobs for our youths,we say 'NO' to pardon of glorified rogues,If there is an uprising then the nation is in dire need of it because we live our everyday life being pushed to the wall of thorns. To those perpetrating evil,Nigeria is just a country,but to us,this is our home,our life,our pride. We won't sit back and watch it crumble right before our eyes,Arise my fellow compatriots!
1 comment:
Nice one. Indepth.
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