Nigeria, Now We Know

They stood on highly placed podiums In densely packed stadiums Making promises, unwitting and false And now we wait as time slowly crawls Now we see The so called promise of a fatherland Smeared with cruelty and blood stained sand Treachery and fear of the dreaded boko haram Bringing tragedy, pandemonium and widespread alarm Tainting a religion of peace. Noble Islam Fanaticism some say; but terror is their way Now we hear The blood curdling screams As we awaken from terror filled dreams Outcries of electoral rigging From supressed political teams Woeful tales in news broadcast And we wonder, how long these will last But now we know better Than to hear their sugar coated words Or to see their finely painted worlds Yes; now we know better