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The Trojan of our heroic struggle The heroic struggle against chains Which beckons with pains That tends to make us insane For we are already stained As they offer us disdain Nowhere but in the scorchy rain From the cradle lipping with light . . . of wisdom Grew to be part of the struggle against the kingdom Clenching fisticuff against the host hoarding our freedom For the student movement’s struggle against the fiefdom Reigned like others that thinketh not of the days of doomdom Whilst the 80’s have those that have seldom Bothers not about their selfishly accrued freedom And bear brunt and boredom: The late Chris Abasi The late Rotimi Ewebiyi(RE) Lanre Arogundade,Emman Ezeazu Olu Oguibe, Labaran Maku Ogaga Ifowodo, Bamidele Aturu . . . Who scrawl their sobriquet in the Ingrained Annals of the Nigerian student struggle Those whose names sends Cold and shiver to the Military junta Chima, a born Trojan Had no laurels and medals to display Except for broken ribs and Bruised lips with a bloodied head For a cause he believed in Ubani, a masculine Amazon It just occurred to me that your demise has left A big lacuna in the revolutionary kingdom in Nigeria You remain the unassuming link amidst The ultra-leftist, the progressives The right activists, the social critics The liberals and other change seekers All along, you raised the slogan of System change and Regime change Craving for a working class mass based Political party to take over So that we can move over Whenever we see the sign of cross over In order not to spill over In our quest to possess our possession You remain a Trojan in the gully Having kept your head above murk In the human right trenches You have scribbled your name boldly in Gold on the sand of history The road claims another Trojan Unable to lose us out of your life We gain from the blood and pains A living testament to earn us new hearts And firm us on the more Forever in the struggle till we wet out The blood of our tormentors and oppressors. Alayande Stephen Tolulope September 27th 2005 4.45pm
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