Survival!

By .. TJ Uyi-Ogbeide


Of Pain and anguish
and tears and fears
of calamity and adversary
and run and fall

Of toil and soil
and pain but no gain
Of trouble and struggle
Terrible not flexible

Of wit and might
and fight and die
Of hatred and abuse
and strive and survive

Of gun and knife
and shoot and kill
Of bad and worse
no good and better

of stealing and looting
and on and on
we cry and die
Of me and u
and us and we
where do we go
and rest our claim?

I speak about my "motherland"
NIGERIA!

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