I AM NIGERIA.

Say I am Nigeria.
Say I am Vanity.
Say Nigeria is Vanity.

Say I am Nigeria.
That my body is a tree where ripe fruits of corruption can be plucked;
That my body is a template of hypocrisy -
Where we fuse our real thoughts into silence
While allowing our lips break into sounds of deceit;
That my body is a war front of religion -
Where fight for religion's supremacy is Paramount.
Say I am Nigeria.
Say I am Vanity.
Say Nigeria is Vanity.

Say I am Nigeria.
That my sweat is blood
& my spittle is curved into the curvature of pain;
That my body dances "shaku shaku" to voices that shakes "who" into ditches of guilt & zones of Golgotha -
Say "who" is our saviour, warrior... Our truth.
Say I am Nigeria.
Say I am Vanity.
Say Nigeria is Vanity.

Say I am Nigeria.
That I live to die untimely,
But I die only to live as tales of dirges & warnings to "corrupto-sexuals" like me.
Say I am Nigeria.
Say I am Vanity.
Say Nigeria is Vanity.

I am Emmanuel
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