Oppression everywhere; people scurrying,
scurrying away from a lunatic,
a dragon-mouthed lunatic drunk from a cocktail of blood.
No one is safe;
safety is old and abandoned;
no, crushed,
ground to a dusty pulp,
by its steel-ripping claws, terrifying
the rocks tremble and fall a splitting fall.
Soldiers hooves thudding,
raging boots with teeth as a saw,
the walls yelping cracks,
fretful horses whinnying and waking sleeping nights,
and frozen people scaling through clapping windows.
Turmoil wreaks the peace of peace,
towns beleaguered by red-eyed khakis with guns in hands,
bullets flying with lightening speed,
burning the streets;
freaking out, the rattled nocturnal air smokes smoke.
Broken fleshes everywhere falling like chilled dumps,
melting cell by cell.
What a nation!
A saber-toothed bug is on the prowl,
drilling blood in the marrow of freedom;
feeding notorious fear,
shredding the flesh of voices to a broken silence.
Brutality roams the street, terror in legions.
A government - a dragon-mouthed lunatic - the dregs of humanity
in a convolution like a dog wagged by its tail.
Oh Nigeria, when will life be life, and not terror?
When will swords be sheathed away in their scabbards?
Guns in their hosts?
Never, never, I hear;
your voice writhes life with furor of terror.
You are an unchanging terror
sewed up in oppression of them
in cottages so lowly - people so voiceless.
A government, threading thrillingly on injustice wide plains,
while stigmatizing justice as a sprawling dung.
Democracy is supposed to taste as a sweet nectar,
but this democracy swings brutality like a grim reaper.
A cry for injustice and oppression and a poem of courage to expose these injustices. If a government is made as a vehicle to oppress its people and suppress the rights of its citizens, then the government goes down to the level of a demon who delivers its people to darkness.
A Cocktail of blood! ! ! Not only in Nigeria! Also in other African Countries. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Brave utterances set aside for sober reflection. An insightful patriotic write nicely brought forth with conviction. Thanks for sharing, Chima.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A powerful, incisive and insightful write. It expresses brilliantly in detail the injustices committed by the government for its people. A well crafted, thought and conveyed poem. Onto my Poem List.
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