by Soyombo Ayomikun

I see graduates from our ivory towers emerging fully baked

  Not as devilish souls longing to consume the ‘national cake’

  Acts we’ve seen in some leaders who cut big chunks with knives of greed

  As if their ancestors alone baked the cake

#Outside these shores someday

  As kings we would march into distant lands

  The white ones beholding us with awe

  As we will be haloed by clouds of glory from the Niger area

  We will instruct one & dozens will respond

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#Our wives will no longer die in labour

  From preventable haemorrhages & convulsions

  Polio & cholera will become tales

  Tales entirely fluffy lacking substance

  Neonates & infants will no longer be lost to anaemia

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#I see generators & inverters loosing their place

  As the government will overwhelm all with constant power

  Sudden conflagaration of homes by fuel explosions will cease

  Because we will no longer have to be sleeping on stockpiled petrol

  Going to work will be in well-ironed cloths

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#Madness & politics will be forever split

  With our leaders baptized by a fire of sacrifices

  Embracing leadership’s crown of thorns they will bleed for our cause

  All to see the rivers of joy drown Nigeria

  I see leaders who will rather die than lie

  Days when dignity & peace will again find us

#I see days when abductions & terrorism

  Will be fictions on our screens rather than the norm

  Seasons when the wealth of one will remain meaningless

  Until others are rescued from poverty’s useless grips

  I see a land united by love & blazing dreams

  Moments when we will be found by dignity & peace

#Our children will study in classrooms

  Not overwhelmed by thoughts & fear of collapsing walls

  I see the government owned universities growing up to stature

  As strikes would have been buried beneath rocks of ‘calendar regularity’

  Foreigners embracing our exchange programmes to breathe in our wisdom

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#I see graduates from our ivory towers emerging fully baked

  Not as devilish souls longing to consume the ‘national cake’

  Acts we’ve seen in some leaders who cut big chunks with knives of greed

  As if their ancestors alone baked the cake

  A new breed of Nigerians indeed trail blazers

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#I see beautiful & safe interstate roads

  Adorned as sacred alleys in a royal kingdom

  Purified healthy water gushing out from all taps

  Burying our thirst from the villages to the cities

  Sealing the coffin of cholera & other faeco-oral diseases

  Someday dignity & peace will again find us

#We will never stop to shout for change

  Till we become living ‘statues of liberty’ apparelled in honour

  We will keep battling the malignancy in our government

  Until all cancerous leaders & followers are wiped off our coast

  These generational voices will forever ring through history

  As angels of liberty that breathed freedom on the Nigerian dream

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Soyombo Ayomikun tweets from @alabaster85