The Nigeria of My Dream

 All Hail Nigeria my great country

A country of great treasury

But see! She drowns in the red sea

Lost in the deep of the Nile

Blinded by the Egyptian wealth

Losing her precious jewels, her babies

Oh! Wisdom, arrest our leaders.

A bright blue sky

Pretty waterfalls

Great fragrance everywhere

Peace and harmony dining in our midst

A land of diamonds and emeralds

See her sleeping on a bed of roses

Nigeria!

The beautiful woman of my dream

The bed of roses, the crown of thorns

How painful can this be –

Measuring my dream on this reality scale?

Am I not Karl Marx?

Shouldn’t Utopia be the first son?

But dreaming is not enough

Change! Utopia! Change!

Instead of the crown of thorns

Beautify her head with a wreath of roses

Fighting for her freedom

To build the Nigeria of my dream

Written By

Chuks-Osuji Chinonso

SS 2B