There Was A Country Poem by Tosin Abegunde

Once upon a time
In a kingdom very near
When men were still men,
Women were still virgins
And blood sings unison
The light sees no wane
And the coals burns with sulphurs
This country exists but to vapour
Like heat emiting on distant road
A nation bought with greed
Paid with innocent blood
Fueled by a beefs
On grounds of superiority
With ego of possession
Wrong cap feathering flies of woe.
The fools and the fooled
Waging a peaceful massacre
Littering the surface with future
Burrying great vision
And planting a tree of memory
An indelible mark that cleans not.
How time flies!
How has thou fallen, o biafra
A city with moat around it
Like a girdle it firms around
The safest abode in the black race
Now a flicker of memory
The T- junction will always record
Journey of the abokis
Errand championed by yinminrins
Zombied by akus
Successful breaking of front teeth
Giving birth to another nation
OPC cannot MEND Boko Haram
Things totally fall apart
Centre becomes disjointed
Love and harmony now extinct
Now becoming songs of yesterday
The labour of heroes past
Now becomes seed of anguish
Germinating in minds
With its fruits like that of eden's
Who will make us a skin clothe
To save us from shame of fig leaf
I tarry to see but no one cares
Now i know that the voice counts
Man in the wilderness foresees
Indeed a brood of viper we are