FOCUS NIGERIA. (Brought to you by Fab Schools Nigeria).
In view of the ungoing crisis in Nigeria:
- The Odetola and Lawan Scandal
- The Boko Haram Crisis in the North, and so on...
Here is our own take on Nigeria. Please enjoy the poem below and don't forget to send your own comments to: fabschoolsnigeria@yahoo.com, or on our website: www.fabschools.blogspot.com. So, here it is, as said earlier enjoy...
POEM’S
TITLE: WHY THE BAD PRESS?
WRITTEN BY: BOLUWATIFE NATHANIEL AWOFADEJU
Everyday
the image of an individual is tarnished,
Everyday
our country’s name is soiled,
What
a pity,
Why?
5 Why
do we give ourselves a bad name?
From suicide bombings
and robberies-
To kidnapping and
sabotaging,
From assault,
manslaughter and genocides-
To black-mailing,
frauds and associations,
10 As
you know the list goes on…
I’m simply fed-up of
all of this.
Why?
Why do we give
ourselves a bad name?
Must some individuals
be so irrational?
15 Irrational
to kill themselves or others or sometimes themselves and others?
I just don’t get it,
Some rulers are fraudsters,
Reapers of what they
didn’t sow-
Later leaving remnants
for the oppressed and silent people in the society,
20 This
is just giving us a bad name,
This is what we simply
call bad press.
Away from the leaders,
And now to the
followers,
We are simply complex
to understand,
25 Too
complex to even understand our individual selves and problems,
Talk less of
understanding the needs and problems of others.
Some individuals just
love wars and fightings-
They are not cool with
peace at all,
They are simply
comfortable with a place full of chaos,
30 These
are wicked people,
They mustn’t live to
see the light of the day, right?
But let me give you a
shocker,
They are numerous in
this world today,
And we simply can’t do
anything about that.
35 All
we can do is to re-orientate them,
Not just them but
everyone else (inclusive of ourselves),
We all need to
reappraise ourselves regularly,
To check-mate our
excesses,
To deal with our
weakness,
40 And
to live rightly in today’s society.
That way we all can be
happy,
We would have
corrected our bad name,
And left the bad
reports from revolving around us,
That way unity, peace
and tranquility would truly exist in diversity.