Never Again

By Felix Brambaifa
Taste the deep salt of my tearsRealize that my heart is tethered in despairsTaste the solitude that binds meThen you shall realize I seek to be free
Many the concerns that waft throughBut none to measure the contents of my grief This reality is to all but a domineering fewWhose vanity drives their rectitude adrift
My bond from childhood was forgedSo I had pledged to a service of truthBut now my confidence deeply scorched Erstwhile loyalties must now bear ill fruit
How vain the pursuit of the commonerWhose gaze pierces not even his own ignoranceHow certain he might never become the dreamerWhose visions take to account his annoyance
Never again shall I subscribe to be part of thisNever again shall I claim nonchalanceTo embrace quietude when events go amissWhen the clandestine make their stance
Judge not unfairly the particulars of my originFor as a Nigerian I am greatly aware of shameAnd her wickedness that makes us all screamI am victim to the vices that brings her fame
So now I stand on the grounds of convictionsAnd disavow all commitments to her gainsTo make ridicule of her false constitutionsWhich forever has held us all under chains
With resolve I wash anew my defiled dignityAnd put before suspicion things of governmentFor it was and still is the hand that brings calamityAnd for their sake did we endure cruel torment
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