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Bensdefinition
Student @ University of Ibadan
Student @ University of Ibadan
A song of compatriots
<p>October 1st and life blooms</p><p>"Like the chaste leaf in the morning</p><p>When the sun first touches it"</p><p>The oppressive boot and</p><p>The irrelevance of the colour of its foot</p><p>I've read Soyinka</p><p></p><p>Of the coastal tribes ravaged and bundled up the ship</p><p>Far across the baths of the Atlantic</p><p>I ate the words of Achebe</p><p>Squeezed with much vigour</p><p>Out of his creative buds.</p><p>I've chewed on the letters of activism</p><p></p><p>The three pillars of</p><p>Awolowo, Azikiwe and Balewa were in bloom</p><p>When Enahoro hoisted</p><p>the unborn flag and</p><p>Macaulay pruned the tender roses</p><p></p><p>My tidings are for two: First, your children whose reddened back trembled</p><p>at the whip</p><p>The largest black race second</p><p>With scores of languages but</p><p>their tongue speaks only one—suffering.</p><p></p><p>To be a Nigerian means hope</p><p>To plunder the giant's yard</p><p>Is to hold the grim reaper by the crotch.</p><p></p><p>Such brutal fate awaits those</p><p>who pillage her</p><p>Mother that suckled me</p><p>Wife that keeps the home in my stead</p><p>And dawn's own jewel, my daughter gazelle of the meadow.</p><p></p><p>Spirit of my fathers plague these binders</p><p>Spirit of my ancestors come with me</p><p>From the baths of the coast and the pines of the tropic </p><p>to the sands of resistance that touch Tulo Tulo</p><p></p><p>Let us break the wall that they set</p><p>between east and north</p><p>Not cowardly flight to aliens lands</p><p>With oneness restore the landmark</p><p>The brazen heads,</p><p>Pillars of groundnut in the North</p><p>Plateaus of cocoa in the West and</p><p>Floods of Palm oil in the East</p><p></p><p>We will sing of this song</p><p>from dawn till dusk</p><p>Under our own rule and joyous splendor</p>
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