DELUSORY FREEDOM
Independence waltz in with fanfare;
The question it poses-how have we fared?
With gong and jamboree of mirth we roar;
Despite the unified division...we soar
But we are still dependent...
Albeit, with circumscribed freedom we rear;
With a sinewy tenacity that is rare;
We are buffeted by insufficiencies in plenitude;
Pining away with inadequacies of immense magnitude...
Independent but still dependent...
Ravaging terror on the rise; our stigma, nay, pigment;
Displacement in our placement of apartment;
Independence with attendant payment
Independent they say; but still dependent.
At the becks and calls of the superpowers;
Pandering to our wishes at their whims and caprices;
Cap in hand; grovelling with effusion in humiliation;
Independent but still embedded…
Supperannuates at the saddle with dis-vision;
Drifted and buffeted with capricious revisionism;
Mind fecundity shackled; my mind it addled and rankled
Independent but still alienated…
A manacled mind; with ideological bind;
Avarice enthusiasm; probity indeterminism;
Poverty pervading bane; citizens writhing in pain.
Independence they say...delusory freedom we say,
Opportunity…benumbed boredom…all in vain
Sufficient but insufficient…Nigeria kingdom in uncertainty
Independence?...subsisting unpalatabilities prove otherwise.
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