THE NIGERIA I KNOW

The Nigeria flag I know

It is the royal banner of peace and wealth

The origin of our happiness and health

The royal banner of protection

Our pride and swag cloth

Hmm.....

When the flag is lowered and stained

Our peace and wealth turned to war and vanity

Our royal banner becomes grave clothes

The royal banner of happiness and health turned into cataclysm.

Who will wash our royal banner?

The Nigeria national anthem I know

Oh the song of inspiration

The song of unity and peace

Song of freedom and relieve

Song of hope and prayer

The song that gives life to Justice

But so sadden, our euphonious song becomes sweet sorrowful tone

The spirit of the song is dead

And song of Justice becomes song of crime

It becomes suicidal song to the citizen

When shall we sing the euphonious song of unity?

The Nigeria national pledge I know

It is the oath of national virtues

The oath that inspired us to serve with all our strength

The oath that inspired us to defend our country's dignity

The oath that gives assurance of our country

But our oath has turned villainous

The significant future of the country are slaughtered like festival ram.

Our sweet oath is chanted at graveyard.

The Nigeria coat of arm I know

It is the beauty of our country

At the sight of it, we are inspired to become a broom

We become wiser and stronger when it is nigh us

But when our country is dancing to hade

Our beauty is fading away like a grotesques palace

Our strength grows weaker like a tree in the desert

we are thinkless and harmful to one another

And Our country is dancing to awful hade.

The Nigeria politicians I know

They are undisputed canker

Corruption runs through their veins

They send their infants to other barony to use another infants for war

They are ready to sacrifice their money when election knocks

They buy our hope and gave us false hope

Hmm...

They are monsters in human's skin

They are ready to devour their prey.

The Nigeria citizen I know

We live in one black pot

Tho' we are fishes and birds in nature

But we drink from the same gourd

Hmm...

When the wind of destruction blew

It turned many into Orphans

Many become hopeless

Children of butchers now flex with bones

We are brutalized over our right

We roam homeless and naked in street of living war.

We are thrown out of other barony like deadwoods.

Hmm...

Our country has contacted destruction disease

Nigeria is dying.

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