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<p style="text-align:left;">Sometimes,<br>
Rejection makes us feel worthless.<br>
Like all efforts are wasted<br>
And all hope lost.<br>
Yet, we try harder!</p>
<p>Face painted in hues<br>
By the smiling sun and the gloomy moon,<br>
Our hearts are faint,<br>
Swamped in disbelief<br>
Of our strength to trudge ahead.</p>
<p>Failure mocks at us.<br>
He labels us fools to success.<br>
Disabling our mentality<br>
Until we become false nonentities<br>
Stifled in rage!</p>
<p>Attacks here and there,<br>
Make our heart cold in fear.<br>
And sometimes<br>
We find ourselves giving up –<br>
And we weep.</p>
<p>Our souls are pierced<br>
And stabbed with rumors;<br>
Alienating us from our hopes<br>
Of malnourished thoughts;<br>
Of failures spilling into our tomorrow…</p>
<p>But most of all,<br>
We shiver to disobey the wrongs.<br>
We shrink to complacence,<br>
Afraid to be tagged –<br>
Unprofitable, faithless failures.</p>
<p>Many times,<br>
Sergeant ignorance and his friends,<br>
Drive us insane,<br>
And make of us nuisance to the society<br>
We built with our own bare hands!</p>
<p>With hearts full of trepidation,<br>
We trek.<br>
With our blinking hopes,<br>
Peacefully installed in our hearts –<br>
Diluted with doubts of diabolic prize.</p>
<p>Our faiths,<br>
Encrypted into gentility,<br>
We condemn ourselves<br>
And demolish the future of our dreams –<br>
To rot in heartless disgrace.</p>
<p>With fear so bold to conquer,<br>
Masquerading our dreams in torments,<br>
Of self-blames and pity.<br>
Our pleasantries entertained with caution,<br>
Suspicions and fear.</p>
<p>Thoughts allow us talk,<br>
Only out of courtesy –<br>
Believing with times.<br>
We will rag away, without doing anything.<br>
So they have time to mock at us!</p>
<p>Such is life?<br>
We are not ashamed to fail.<br>
‘Yes’, no matter what,<br>
Our nation must not fall,<br>
Because we failed to play our role!</p>
<p>Distraction may make us proceed backward –<br>
Towards a precinct<br>
Within the wimp and wilderness<br>
Of perpetual self-deceit and ungodly forces<br>
Sharing our national cakes alone.</p>
<p>And relishing our faces,<br>
Trained by poverty.<br>
We speak lucidly from a polluted heart.<br>
Proving our inherent amnesia –<br>
Inability to face the truth of our failures!</p>
<p>Here we all stand –<br>
Parading on garments of fading glories!<br>
As children from hunted homes of enmity,<br>
Where is the peace we preach?<br>
Indeed where is love – all fables from dirty lips?</p>
<p>This is the land we inhabit,<br>
And nurtured with our bear hands to grow.<br>
In love, peace and justice!<br>
We have now a festival of rebellion and deceit.<br>
But this is our heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed. We have to, ought to:<br>
Let us be re-baptized,<br>
Become our natural real-self.<br>
And lay claim to our portion –<br>
With heart brave like the lion’s.</p>
<p>This is our Father-land!<br>
Arise O compatriot!</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">meet the poet: <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/moses.opara.7">Moses Opara</a></strong></p>
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