Poet of the Week: Faruk Sarkinfada
Watering the Trees (For MuhammaduBuhari)A Nation of trees With drying branches and fallen leaves Hit by droughts, 16 years they lived For blight and hunger, the masses leaveFor killings and burnings, all the residents flee To safety domains in search of peace For holidays and shops, her leaders leave For dating of damsels, ice creams […]
Watering the Trees
(For MuhammaduBuhari)
A Nation of trees
With drying branches and fallen leaves
Hit by droughts, 16 years they lived
For blight and hunger, the masses leave
For killings and burnings, all the residents flee
To safety domains in search of peace
For holidays and shops, her leaders leave
For dating of damsels, ice creams and sweets
For the collapse of healthcare, the wealthy leave
In search for cure from the West and East
For greener pastures, the health workers leave
For uncertain tuition, rich students leave
For greener pastures, their teachers leave
But the sane are disturbed, confused in grief
With bodies they live, with minds they leave
Yearning for change in homes and streets
Now the rain has come to water these trees
To revive their branches and regain their leaves
Friday May 29, 2015
My Blessed Home
Blessed is my home
A Nation abode
Of human and natural resource
My currency was twice
What the strongest could afford
As the Nation’s wealth grows
So the poverty grows
Cos our wealth is shared
By the leaders in the home
And their allies abroad
If the Nation should survive …
Let the leaders guard the wealth
Let justice lead the way
Kick corruption off the road
The stolen wealth, returned
And the Nation shall return
Back to where it should belong
Friday 22nd November 2013
Among the Best
In my country
The black African best
‘No sector operates at its best’
Leaders with greed of the highest grade
The masses subdued, oppressed and debased
Unity and peace melting away
From the east, south, north and west
The country stands on its head, up its toes
The nation is sick, for a healer we quest!
To uplift my country to the highest grade
Let’s vote education as the best
Uphold it as a ‘life support’
In the east, south, north and west
That every sector may operate at its best
And make my country united as one
A nation among the best
Saturday 26th October 2013