Where Are The Nigerian Youths? Poem by John Chizoba Vincent

where are the Nigerian youths?

where are the pillar of the foundation?

the striving spirits and the breadwinners

behold, all are entangled in a strange dance

a dance of shame

in the stormy ocean kicked by the wind

Now our belly are tolling

And our hearts is slowly beating

Depressed and shattered away

in their own land,

here stood the ancestral home

In the land once lay our heroes

turning round the clock, the age remained the same



when is our turn to take our right?

when shall we smile like the babies?

stand as steady as the rock in the forest

when shall we take that lost throne?

the throne of peace

they whistles the song to us in our tender age

we are the leaders of tomorrow

But our eyes are fixed unmoved

And the animals are there with a thorny hands

we shall also pass the old song to our children

so long an elegy to behold



the ambassador of poverty they are

they used us as political animals

calm, i looked around, and stood in tears in a lost nation

would the wind take me for that?

The animals eat our right

our body mark the spot where they bit

And our heart is slowly dying in silence

Hopes are dashed away in tears

Dreams beyond dreams

Mingling with the dying

Darkness become our friend in torment

We are lost in a foreign land

A land of hope for us to survive are being taken over

now, we are eroding into the arms of strange town

we are gone in exile in weakness





Trouble knocked down the smiles on our faces

our rights are gone with the fools in tears

Where are the leaders of tomorrow? so to say

Where are our position in the noble land?

we never tasted happiness nor joy

can we still dance the old song?

song of merriment

Never! their thorns held us down, tight.

the animals brought it upon us

Education lost in the night war

Because the animals took their offspring to a foreign land

a land filled with milk and honey

We are left in the night of darkness



cry no more! there is hope

this mountain stood i to oversee things

in the heart of the brave there is hope

Only fight with the wind if we apply no wisdom

with determination we shall conquer our doom

smile because mother earth is at our side

soon or later, she would strangle them to our side

And we shall take over the land and rule

Because in the principle of life, it is our role.



ALL RIGHT RESERVED (C) JOHN CHIZOBA VINCENT 2013