PROUDLY NAIJA

 

O Nigeria
A promising child in the day of yore
Palm oil,cocoa,cotton and groundnut pyramid a live-wire of extant
The booming flourish in the household of your three son
Who betrayed your prospect that envy your peers
A ghost of self you have become
The death of boom of day of yore
  Awful land woe
A specter that hound for life again

-Who milked you dried
Devoured your oyster flesh and left empty shell
Who drove you blind and hurled you into darkness
Who amputate your feet and stagnate your pace
Who shrink your flesh and made you frail
Who starved your bloods and angered their spirit
Who made your loins half-lettered to despise goodness of letter
Who plant seed of discord to put your children asunder

-Let this query be a beaming torch light to unravel the truth
Am pregnant with hope in prospect i stand
Tomorrow shall beget good days to come
All hands be on deck to usher in pleasant tomorrow!

 

   Emmanuel Frost (Sacred Frost)