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 </div><p></p>I cry for the barking gods who write<br>
With illusory saliva on empty souls,<br>
But their words perish as particles of<br>
Silence hides their deceit in sepulcher of history.
<p>I cry for the mothers who warmly received doom at their backyard,<br>
Offering him kolanut and palmwine,<br>
Doom has only come to borrow your delightful smiles,<br>
He’ll compensate you with a container of anguish<br>
And he has come to adorn your souls with poverty’s agbada.</p>
<p>I cry for Ajadi, he savagely manhandled a damsel,<br>
Maybe he forgot to ask his aging mother<br>
The reason behind his father,languishing in that stream of penury.<br>
I cry for his huge muscles,<br>
For they shall emerge as orphans in the hut of destitution,<br>
When nemesis shall ask for their hand in marriage.</p>
<p>I cry for the gods descendants, For Future shall hire them,<br>
For they shall pay for their ancestors deeds<br>
They shall creep with their heads<br>
Begging pigs for one square meal.<br>
Listen to the cry of yesterday, she’s asking for revenge,<br>
She’s yelling for the blood of those<br>
Who stigmatized her name with bloods of the faultless</p>
<p>Listen to the cry of Nigerians,<br>
Under the naked clouds, that’s where we take refuge,<br>
We live like fugitives in a deserted land,<br>
Rain flogs our butts, even the sun stings our flesh,<br>
When shall we stop paying homage to captivity?</p>
<p>Yes I cry,<br>
For the gods I cry, for I see their end<br>
I cry today, but not tomorrow<br>
For later will i smile, and they shall resume crying,<br>
For they shall forever live, throwing punches with their conscience,<br>
I shall laugh at their doomed fate, Yes I shall laugh!</p>
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