THIS MORNING SHALL COME

by Saidu Mark Jatau
8th June 2016

While we are here waiting

Their butts remained glued to their chairs resting.

We where little while they where leaders

We are adult but they are leaders

They eat and grow fat

While we blink and grow sad

This is democracy, they say

I lack the vocabulary, to say.

They reap as they watch us sow

And levied as we continue to labour

Our tears is now their rain

Our pain is now their gain

But still we trust them more

Because they fake us more

We are still building, they say!

We are already broken, we cry!

What is our fault, we exclaimed!

What is their complain, they explained!

Our faith is now their blade

Our ethnic differences is now their

strength.

They focus more because they starve us

more, and now made their biddings our

cravings.

Like the bullet is to the gun

We wait for their finger to press the trigger

But like flies to a corpse

We all rushed to be crushed

We have failed to see

Cos’ our eyes are still asleep

From afar, as a nation we are pitied

cos’ our pride has already been emptied.

This night is a long one cos’ the morning

seems already long gone.

Please, let this morning come

Oh! Let this morning come

Its still a dream, for nightmare is what we

detest.

Let’s wake up from this slumber,

And face this political foes call friends.

As a nation, Our strength is that of a lion.

As a state, is that of a leach!

Oh! Let the morning come

Like a broom we shall stand united

And like the iroko we shall be strong

Let our numbers count

Let our votes count

Let our strength prevail

And we shall have Democracy for all again.

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