Here,
the streets are quiet but the hunger is loud
here,
tears are cheaper than food,
here
sweat and tears are not enough,
to survive,
you must give your blood and
even that is not enough;
here, you have to die to live.
I guess that’s the punishment for eating the forbidden fruit that is the country you were born into
Here, children are gifts from the Lord but abandoned kids on the street are nothing but mere statistics
and it’s easy to forget:
as you stare behind your tinted car windows, that hunger is the father of crime
and that
those helpless children will share the same society
with the apples of your eyes.
ask Boko Haram.
Here,
NEPA has more power than God and we
still live in darkness
here,
we touch not our pastors and do our politicians no harm because
the wages of corruption is national honour but the wages of sin is death.
here,
school is the biggest scam:
who needs a bloody certificate when you can be the president?
you can smoke and get high
but you can’t get to la la land-
flight prices are too high.
Even the skies are angry with us
that’s why it pours in November
but the rains can’t wash our gutters,
here.
Glossary
NEPA - National Electric Power Authority (the organization that governs the use of electricity in Nigeria) currently known as PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) but most Nigerians still call it NEPA.
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