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 </div><p></p>What a country?<br>
After many years of perpetual suffering<br>
We breathed sighs of relief<br>
The eras of the vicious men are gone<br>
The eras of rampant looting of the nation’s coffer are gone<br>
We were free at last
<p>Who could signal our hope for the future?<br>
A hope for a better tomorrow<br>
We were all awake<br>
Dancing to the frantic rhythm of the drum<br>
Drum of hope, drum of assurance</p>
<p>Then along the way, silence…<br>
As if it had been written on the wall<br>
The going gets tough, tougher than before<br>
Piercing our hearts abruptly<br>
And betraying all promises made in full glare</p>
<p>Our leaders are a colossal failure<br>
Flushed into the river of myopism<br>
They bury their consciences in the dung heaps<br>
And torture us with unperturbed minds</p>
<p>Our thoughts of hopeful dreams are gone<br>
Leaving the nation bleeding<br>
Swimming and squirming in moral stupor<br>
Social and economic freedom are in rapid danger<br>
We are all afraid<br>
In palpable fears we bury our heads in sands<br>
Like ostrich as the problem persists</p>
<p>What a country?<br>
As fear grips our innermost being<br>
With our faces ashen and blank<br>
And most amazing our tenacious hopes<br>
For the tide has turned<br>
From the pinnacle of fame to the abyss of shame</p>
<p>For as long as the forest grows without worries<br>
For as long as the oceans flow without stopping<br>
Facing the reality of a blunt and carefree society<br>
With scars of unruly democracy and tribal imperfections<br>
Most saddening our shameless degrees of corruption and inflation<br>
We raise our trunks with burning patriotic desires<br>
To create the country filled with pride and goodwill</p>
<p>This country is ours to toil<br>
In hope for future benefits<br>
Like comrades we are<br>
Let’s put a sun in every night<br>
With might and main<br>
And contribute in shaping the course of our history.</p>
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