They eat naira yet vomit dollars
Called us eagles with a horses strength yet they muzzled our barks with collars
Our voices lost, our sight stolen
Once we were outspoken because we believed we were a generation chosen
They promised us the world, yet daily they eat their word
Said we are not meek enough, our inheritance must be a lie from God
So instead of a lion's share we are given nylon bags
Rather than mourn we celebrate wearing rags
It's not a curse to demand from our fathers what is rightfully ours
Even our mothers have gone sour, their sweetness licked dry till they taste like wildflowers
The old are getting richer while the young runs dry like a river
The Prophets have turned fat from preaching from their bellies now they are simply political drivers
We can't run to God so we turn to the law
But her blindness has made her so hungry she eats the truth with a ravenous gnaw
Vomiting lies like diarrhoea
Justice is no more served, it hides in the shadows like gonorrhea
Crime is as cheap as fifty naira
Where the thief can afford a chieftaincy title while the robbed pray for a new era
So I ask, who will answer the clarion call?
Is it the young who are in a hurry to jump to the other side of the wall?
Or the one who thinks her language is a barbaric tradition
So would rather speak with a friction in her diction
Or label my accent indecent
In the past it was taken, in the present we give it out like a present
Oh what fate, where slavery is now by consent
Selling our traditions and culture till we have lost our natural scent
Like chickens we have run too long at the sound of a whistle
Anything the government can give we can take, that is our new epistle
We have been subjugated for too long, out roars have become an echo
But if we can't join the pride, we will stand out and lead the pack, that is our motto
Kingdavid Chinaeke Ofunne
Authorpreneur
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