NIGERIA AT 62
Independence but yet still dependent
Like a neck lace that's lost its pendant
We're still and struggling
Like a steal rustling
More like we are still in shackles
Our fountains in shambles
And our minerals rippling
Across every tier
A people in constant fear
Dripping in endless tears
On top the tears we're paddling
North and south in wrestling
We've lost our place in the continent
In our leaders we lost all confident
Today we celebrate independence
Along with indebtedness
A celebration void of happiness
A nation milked to emptiness
By leaders who are merciless
We wave our flags in shame and despair
Were broken, almost beyond repair
At 62 hope is all we can afford
As we march in sole accord
We wish our voices be heard
And our yearnings be met
We pick our pieces and move on
The legacy of our heroes live on
It's a struggle we'd keep up
For Nigeria we won't stop
Raise your cups and Cheer on
To the ones we lost to the cause
Our forbearers and our peers
Their names we carve on our freedom
Their foots printed on the sands of time
For their sake naija will be fine
For we're great people Great nation!
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Author:
Gary-Good Okpue (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Although we're 62 but our growth contradicts that, a nation bound in freedom, but still in shackles, still a global dumping ground and relatively dependent on foreign aides...our leaders are our ruin, today we celebrate the strength in our voices today and the sacrifices our heroes past, not 62, not our indebted nation, not the genocide of 10/10/2020, not the recession. We celebrate because despite the efforts of our leaders to mortify us, we as a people stick together and match on for a greater and better Nigeria, Happy Independence to all Patriots!✊
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Comments1
Interesting reminds me of a play I read, 'Thirty years of Bananas' I believe it was expressing the Same state in Uganda
Thank you,, it's funny how all most the whole of Africa are in sync with leadership failure
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