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The Web Poetry Corner - Clarius Ugwuoha - PARADOX OF THE NIGERIAN

PARADOX OF THE NIGERIAN

by

Clarius Ugwuoha

(Written in commemoration of the annulment of the Chief M. K. O. Abiola's Presidential mandate in Nigeria)

We are all behind bars
Behind rusted metals
Behind the debris
Of our battered psyche.

Here, the weather rains pebbled dryness
The sun shines and it is dark
And to see our palms
We await the night.

We laughed laughter and it caught in our throats
Threatening to choke

We grew
And became shorter

Won
And became losers

Grew poorer in our richness.

We in a world of contracts and conflicts
I shall lie here clothed and naked
And express my gladness in sadness!

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