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
Outside these shores someday
As kings we would march into distant lands
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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
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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
I tweet from @alabaster85
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of SaharaReporters
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