Snakes And Lizards Poem by Haruna Garba

Brains of the land
Borrowers of the land
Such perverts you are
Smuggling from the far west
Trafficking from the Far East
Hugging every child born abroad
Have you none but a barren curse
Or is it an intelligence game?
Adopted breeds breeching trust
Snakes and lizards are all reptiles

Had Katrina been importable
And volcano a stuff on wheels
Citizens already they'd have been
Had earthquake been an asylum seeker
And cancer packed in cans
North-East stores would have long been stocked

It's against their wish
That the bird's flu hasn't found roots
It's against their wish
That famine is not putting up enough fight
It's their wish
To couple up HIV and Polio
With every importable plague

Minute spark of anger felt grave
Now let every murrain turn citizen
And take all the living and the faint
Goodwill henceforth a murdered stance