Deaf Nation

Nigeria is fifty-three, Nigeria is fifty-three
Five decades and 3 years of lies and treachery
Travesty of injustice surplus and rife
Discrimination on every side, democracy mystified

Pretentious attention and dismissive apprehension
Dying of anticipation and choking from intoxication
A society blinded by ethnicity and heading for mutiny
When all we really need is unity

Fellow patriots let’s as one arise
Redeem our pledge to serve with heart and might
Let’s keep seeking and surely we shall find
As we walk this thin fine line under the microscope of life

Take my hand be my brother
Why suppress one for the benefit of another
Take my hand be my sister
For we may rise and fall but in the end we meet our fate together

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what our nation could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died

                                             

                                                This poem was written by Uzodinma Nwankwo