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Vicki D'Writer Nigeria Online Fashion Vendor @ Vicki Hub Fashion
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GO! I MUST GO!
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Brothers! It is day break.<br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Yes! The day that felt like it would never come.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Brothers! Let's move it before something holds us down.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Brothers! Can we look back?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Look back at Motherland.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Will she be fine alone?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">To what benefit? Dear Brother!</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Her heart bleeds not because we are leaving.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Her heart bleeds not because we hold any importance.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Her heart bleeds just because we chose ourselves despite showing her all the love.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Now tell me Dear Brother,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Must We Stay to Prove Our Love?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Our Love?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">What exactly is Love?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Can we talk about the dangers of walking alone or with the crowd?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Can we talk about the lights out for days, months, years?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Can we talk about the failed health system?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Motherland gives no job,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Motherland rates no literate,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Foreigners do not see us less,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Just enough clues to leave.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Must I sacrifice my future</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">To prove that I love my Motherland?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Must I bury the prospect of a better life</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Just to be called patriotic?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">What has Motherland given me to sustain me?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">What has she offered me to survive?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">If staying means losing myself,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Must I lose myself to prove I belong?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">It is such a hard decision Brother,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">But Go! I Must!</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">It is not my will dearest Brother,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">But overseas calls me.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Brother! Motherland has sacrificed so much,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Can we give to Caesar;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">what belongs to Caesar.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Sacrifice of missing lives;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">On National Celebrations?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Sacrifice of Distribution of licensed weapons;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">To Known licensed folks?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">What do Motherland owe me;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">My life?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">My sanity?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">My peace?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Talking about leaving,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Is someone out there waiting to fill in;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">My Gap?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Condolence to ye benefeciaries of my presence,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Apology to the void in my absence.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Homo-Sapien Me choose to survive;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Survival Brother!</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">To Survive I pick Me.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Motherland;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Does my survival depend on you?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">If it does,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Then Go! I Must Go!</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Now Tell me Brother;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Are there any more professionals?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Where are my Doctors?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Where are my lawyers?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Where are my engineers?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">The white man sees them more valuable;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">And Motherland you say?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">When she is Green,</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">I stand strong and hope it gets better;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">I see potential in Motherland.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">White is my favorite.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Make me Joseph, a dreamer.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Peace I dream of;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Better future I hope for.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Motherland is Home.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">My native land.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">But when Home becomes a punishment;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">What do you do dear Brother?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Brother! Motherland is Ours.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Go! We Must Go!</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">But;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;">Forever Motherland is Our Home.</p>

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