The Fight For True Independence Has Just Begun Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

Just yesterday before the sunshine,
after the rains that washed clean
our beautiful air space with candour,
cruel invaders of our freedoms,
like leopards in a herd of rams and he-goats
captured us with tact and sword;
subdued, denied us freedom;
and made us their slaves.

We cried and wailed in pain,
stressed and pleading in vain.
Our forebears were humiliated
and like wild game slaughtered

They gagged our brains with Religion
in body and in spirit they were legion
fooled us they had given us freedom
but we were bound with slavedom
.
Slavishly we celebrated and bowed
to tactical and diplomatic servitude,
only served to bolster the carnage
that swept us into befouled drainage

They imposed on us the most wicked
clueless, dependent and wrecked
leaders from our primitive stock.
They befouled our candour and flock

Independence became dependence;
they fooled us to celebrate our doom.
We graduated to modern glorified slaves
dependent on monetary weapons
they flew like kites in all our space;
Trojans pulled us all around like camels
took all we had; a wee little they gave back to us

They drilled our lands and stole our Oil
stirred all the greed hidden and unknown in us
and marched us against ourselves
to maim and kill our destiny in wars.

They mined and stole our gold and minerals
and imposed harebrained imbeciles as our leaders.
They taught them knavery and greed
to shut us up, steal and us to bleed.

Our people, independent, confident and rich
warriors from birth and inheritance mellowed
and began to savour the odium of cowardice
poverty, hunger, frustration and vice

Clever to use we against us;
our ordained future to pause
to suppress elevation of our best minds.

Indeed I really begin to wonder
when this enlarging pool of tears
will soften walls of these awful drains
that convey to waste our best minds.