By Opeyemi Oluwayomi After: Betiku A. Samuel -- ‘There are many hands here burying the sky.’ When the whites return to our cloth; used, we gleefully cover our nakedness and gird our loins with African pride. At that moment, we were like Zion that dreameth, and we were glad to own our musty-ameliorated attire. Recently, as we grow in our palmar flexion creases like flowers in sandy soil, we clocked sixty-two in the callus palm of a Fulani man and he became a sad note; fingers shouldn’t have struck. Yesterday, a man of many cattle and sheep roasted the only lamb of another. A king shot his servant for being faithful, and in the pursuit of making fingers equal, a merchant sold his dignity for coins. Still, all we did was to blame the head for not soothing the pain in the body. Here, I see hands clouding the sky from beholding its stars and the moon, I see hands burying the sky— yours, theirs, and ours, I see. This is how we wear our independence.
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Adedapo
1/10/2022 05:12:48 pm
The song will change one day, I believe 😔
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Esther Abubakar
5/10/2022 06:21:30 pm
Joseph! You've captured decades with the right words! I must commend your talent. You've written well.
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Daniel Kehinde Olalekan
8/10/2022 11:35:12 pm
Beautiful poem, really. So many themes in one poem. How beautiful! In the poem, I see hypocrisy, injustice, bad leadership, death and corruption. The poem opens with biblical allusion. "Nakedness" and "like ion that dreameth" are testaments of the biblical references in the poem. I see the sense of Independence, freedom, in the first few lines.
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Funminiyi Akinrinade
10/10/2022 09:20:52 am
You just mirrored Nigeria in fine words, Joseph. It's sad, though. I keep wondering when we're going to get it right.
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10/10/2022 10:20:53 am
Well done Joseph. You made the truth less bitter with your choice of words hence one can't help but appericiate the creativity.
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Esther Nwani
11/10/2022 03:55:41 am
We have the capacity to make Nigeria great again, this I believe.
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11/10/2022 11:03:49 am
This is such a beautiful piece. I pray we get victory at last just like Zion. Your poem depicts Nigeria's reality. Showing this to my poet friend. Well done Joseph👏👏
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Alice
11/10/2022 12:09:26 pm
Olamide Ojediran showed me this. Great poem, Nigeria would definitely stand strong!!!
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Syntyche Omeinyinyi Success
12/10/2022 10:52:40 am
Deep sighs
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Esther
15/10/2022 05:36:50 pm
This is such a beautiful piece. I was captivated from the first line. I love how skillful you were with imagery. Well done, it’s an excellent piece.
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Sodiq LAWAL
16/10/2022 10:30:15 am
This is scintillating!
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