We asked Nigerians to write a congratulatory spoken word for their father land on her independence and we got this...
Funny how two contrasting words "patriots" and "Nigeria" can be placed side by side....... A very smart oxymoron I'd say
Are we calling forth patriots or 'parots' to serve Our fatherland because all i can see is a couple of people in bright Green and White uniforms reciting a song that they have been forced to learn in school
At least we thank God for school curriculum
I see trained robots singing with their mouths not from their hearts.....it's called 'using your head'
Where then is the love or have we also learnt how to love without our hearts?
Could strength have been so trivialized to Captain Yusuf making a fist at his sides with his pupils dilating, doing so much brain activity to remember the next line of the anthem just so he can pass his promotion exams?
Would it be safe for young Aisha to have faith in this nation after she had to watch from a peephole as the faceless ones beheaded her father, mother, three older brothers and her younger sister who was three days old just two days ago?
I hear them say "for the labor of our heroes past"........heroes past....... I guess that's the cold truth of all we have...... Heroes past.
Shall their labor be in vain?
Is to serve with heart and mind to serve without our minds?
A society where the law has become unlawful
Where the bad ones have done everything in the good book
Talking on nation development................... You know what? I think I'll just swerve
Because you see we are a nation bound in anything but freedom, peace and unity
You can see how civilians no longer sleep quietly with the sounds they hear
From d mosquitoes to the gun shots in the air
Everyone quaking in fear
Just one question on our minds
Who leads next?
But all this can change and i believe it begins with me so i put up my five fingers to say stop
I'll sacrifice them for the sake of two and two fingers held up high is the sign for peace
I pledge to Nigeria my country
That no matter what the matter I'd be faithful, loyal n honest
To serve with my dying strength
To uphold her honor n unity
So help me God not to forget that not withstanding her instabilities, she flies at full mast
Though she may not be able to say 'I came I saw and I conquered'............ Well at least not yet
One thing is sure no matter what comes our way, we have come to stay
God bless Nigeria......... GOD BLESS NIGERIANS.
Yemi.
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