Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - All Of Us Na Victim (Nigerian Pidgin English Poem)

Thank you Chidi for the social commentary you run through your mobilising poetry. I share here an 'amateur' verse around our January Uprising:

 

The Vultures Are Gathering:

 

The vultures are gathering

Flying high

and swooping low

Beak poised for choice

sections of the carion

Salivating...Anxiously swarming

Waiting to feed

On the carcass

of our January Uprising

 

The Vultures are posturing

appropriating our

collective deeds...

Holding captive..

Our strained voice

 

Those who only yesterday

Disparaged our quest

To Occupy

Are now claiming

ownership of its outcome!

 

They who asked us

voice laden with anger

and disdain:

'Why Occupy'?

And shouted...Occupy where?

Now prance about

the village square....

the new face of opposition?

 

Our name they have stolen

Our wealth they partook

in looting

Our movement

they proclaim theirs...

Our vision

they pervert...

 

The vultures are gathering

and we whose body

they feed on

as maggots on a corpse

Beware........

 

@Jaye Gaskia. 21/01/12.

From: Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@yahoo.com>
To: USA Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:16 PM
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - All Of Us Na Victim (Nigerian Pidgin English Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

 

Oga big bank governor,

You dey share our money

For your village bomb victim dem

Like say na your money.

As you dey share,

Make you share reach everybody,

All of us for Naija na victim.

 

Who dey for Naija

Wey no be victim?

 

Some na bomb victim,

Some na disease victim,

Some na thief victim,

Some na hunger victim.

Which one I go talk,

Which one I no go talk.

All of us for Naija na victim.

 

Even sef

We be your victim.

You siddon for big bank

Dey speak big grammar,

Our money dey disappear.

Di small one wey remain

You carry go share

For your village bomb victim dem.

You share two,

You say you share four.

 

Oga big bank governor,

As you dey share

Make you share reach all of us,

All of us for Naija na victim.

More Dey For: Na For Poems

 

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