I WRITE ABOUT NIGERIA

I want to write about Nigeria

Of course not Algeria

And this is not a poem

And the usual rhyme schemes

With all the efforts to make my words sound like music

I simply want to write

I want to write about hope and change

And then hope that never hoped

And a change that never changed

And of despair and desperation

And confusion and uprisings

And of surprises and of broken roads

And of then of roads that were never constructed

And bridges that were never built

And of a people that wails

And of a people that holds on

And of a people that survives

(No, this people do not just survive)

And of a people that thrives

And of uprisings and misunderstandings

Still today we stand

And we must celebrate

But why is there so much quite in our streets?

Why are our hearts not painted in green and in white?

Rejoice we still must

For as one nation, we still stand

As the giant of Africa, we must still roar

No more to despair

And to sorrow

And to wail

Stand tall, dear giant

Rise again, above the blood and oil

Rise again, Oh giant!

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