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The great mother to whom I cry But when will your mind be to laugh Or mouth in joy of peace it seeks When will happiness to brethren smiles To him your joy afar in miles The treasure your children lost Or the inheritance of mother flaws Grand children in madness drawn To steal, to fraud and to loot To this your veins drain in cries And in pains your mouth bleeds Yet curse your mouth refutes Because in changes your mind lurches Of children in wilderness of vain chase Hope in vanity of welt wealth Great mother to you I cry But mother, behold you too in cry Sour the taste, milk of your breasts To whom will us the solace get Nigeria, mother, bleed they made you II. In trust the one I gave the vase To lead, to mold, and spray the musk That which brethren will make a symbol Fragrance the world sought in haste Aroma the one to mold in folds Your kids, your world, your growth But, amongst of you, leaders you hailed In cry I am, my kids are cursed Like Judas you are of trust to keep But the one your elders waste and frayed To throne your ascendancy in flaws When justice you claimed but ruts In market justice you sell to hawks Like lion poking and sneering of preys The rich, the little of the weak he takes Blame not the kids whose hands do stink Of whom, I ask, they tutored in gales To steal, to fraud, to loot like cats But of their elders, parents, even the guides The reference of elders, now their pride III. But there, standing he holds In pretext the Books of the sages The one he claims to bear In them contains their sayings Of the old and I say, of the Host The one in whom I am mould Books of the Ancients and of age Of ancients before your gods That in it my mind in cry That in lies he claimed to know Behold, he swore to an oath In himself, his oath, his spirit rejects The taker and the one who is charged The responsibility of oath he took Accursed these children I begot The one for which I’m in cry That unto him I say, woe betides Fury of me is here to reckon Rage of the Books that you hold The one of oath as your witness Against of your mouth, it shall witness
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