The match to El dorado
We are witnesses and victims
Victims of state formation
Trekking the borderless borders
Taking refuge with tearful consolation
From Banana leaves behind brick houses
That human inventions and desire have raised down
Broken in spirit and flesh
We roam in concentric circles
Going from mind to mind
From paper to paper
Without a thought of our own
Like subjects of research and experiments
We become witnesses and victims
Of diplomatic cocktails
We become stateless because we stood in the middle
Doing our thing from the mountain sides
Where we have been cut out,
As though we are prehistoric.
We have been witnessing
We have been victims too
Victims of administrative paperworks
That dust falls upon like snow in Alaska.
We decry the neglect
But only to be hit by hurricane of silence
We protest the domination
But got our ego spanked by riffles
Our sleeves of loyalty became rags
Stained with splintered blood.
Blood of a talkative who never feared death
The lords are everywhere
Climbing with us up north
To Eldorado our fondest mount
We have lost identity and have become stateless
But they have everything .
About this poem
The poem is a expression of the sentimental feelings I have when memories and repeated desires to abdicate my country comes to mind. Born in the 80’s and lived in Nigeria since then; the dynamics of Nigeria leadership as brought about by our interpretation of democracy, has erupted a lawless society of corruption, banditry, terrorism, hunger, strife and abandonment. Youths, Migrate away from homes to escape the famine, tough policies that post modernist positivists enact.. the thought of the internally displaced people, the carnage by rebels and terrorist parties amongst others prompted this poem… I aim to communicate the perpetuators of imbalances world over that illegal Migration issues burden would persist still if government world over continue to place policies before men rather than men before policies. more »
Written on July 07, 2017
Submitted by Eruteya on November 28, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABXBXX XXXXXX AXXXXX CXAX XXBAXXX XXXXC |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,120 |
| Words | 200 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 4, 7, 5 |
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