IF NIGERIA WAS A BOOK (I)

If Nigeria was a book,

Perhaps, the cover would be formed from the leather of our butchered brothers bodies

Our sons bodies blown to smithereens up North

For what cover would cover a book when it's economy hasn't recovered.

If Nigeria was a book,

It would contain no English Language,

For what Grammar would form the Composition of the historical story of a Nation

Or what could give us full Comprehension when we claim democracy but all we really have is military Dictation.

If Nigeria was a book,

All our Mathematics would be Fractions of the poor increasing, oil price never decreasing, leaders looting like the Treasury is an Open Sentence.

From the North, East, South and West, we claim togetherness but all we have is Division

The only Multiplication we have are the numbers of the Yahoo Boys and Benz

This trend would continue unless we see beyond the lens,

For our atmosphere is tense,

It's high time we act than sit on a Fence.

-   A-Clef The Poet