user_2148641:*Title: NIGERIA59*
Flags and parades
Amidst the folks
of nation's pillars,
fireworks of barbecue
evoke so many images.
It's original purpose,
to emblazon the birth
of Nigeria free from
fracas of Britain,
freedom got at a high cost.
The cost they willingly
so gave for freedom to
continue, evaporating
hip like ice cream
stretched from a fridge.
No achievement
to tell Bàbá Awólówò
No rehabilitation to
tell Herbert Macaulay
and Sir Ahmadu Bello
We truncated efforts of
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and
Chief Anthony Enahoro
to attain independence
from Britain.
Vampires in the empire
sucked all the bloods of
livelihood off Nigerians,
the years we've wasted and
the tears we've shed
Our leaders should cease
adore talk about history
and also make midnight
history for this great
Nation. *©Kudman* 01/10/2019
*A Linguistics Student of University of Ibadan, Ibadan Oyo State*