A New Country Poem by Tony Adah

We got a country exactly
For nothing,
Just that we are citizens
We are a ginormous dork
That's what they think of us;
They scrap their pledges
To end poverty, to end penury
And to end darkness which now is more
Palpable the blind could touch,
It is dark now,
Our days are covered with its clouds.

Through the chink in the window
Of toil, there's brain drain
Here we make our escape
Only to shine in diaspora,
Fear to look back to a country we got
Exactly for nothing
Just that we are citizens.

Be there hunger as ever
Be there poverty to the last born
Be there darkness as usual
Be there hate as now,
We will mask our despair
Move on with coffins as our cloaks
Die not for the emergence
Of a new country which we will have
For something
Just so we will be citizens.