Joseph Jeremiah Naye Poet Ballad

Kaduna my beloved city

Kaduna my beloved city
My bedevilled hometown
In a duel with itself
Held by the jugular for its
 very soul
A fight for the life of my beloved 
A vice grip has caused splinters
 into
Arabia and Jerusalem a great divide.
 
Oh! how I mourn for my beloved city!
Countless are the duels fought on the 
 streets of the city 
The hustle and bustle drained in
 dusk to dawn curfews
Moving within the old city with fear and 
 trepidation.

Kaduna my home city gone awry
Once the cradle and star of the North 
Now on the threshold of decline.
A shift to the south of the Kaduna river
 
Oh! how I long for the former yonder years
 that the.nights were like daylight 
Never a dull moment 
Friends from across the river divide
 such friends now an anathema
Now only whispers of their names remain.

Kaduna, my beloved city oh how i long for 
 your return to the peace and tranquility of 
  yester years
   (Written on the 28th of October, 2015.)

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