Where Are the Nigerian Youlths

where are the Nigerian youths? where are the pillar of the foundation? the striving spirits and the breadwinners behold, all are entangled in a strange dance a dance of shame in the stormy ocean kicked by the wind Now our belly are tolling And our hearts is slowly beating Depressed and shattered away in their own land, here stood the ancestral home In the land once lay our heroes turning round the clock, the age remained the same when is our turn to take our right? when shall we smile like the babies? stand as steady as the rock in the forest when shall we take that lost throne? the throne of peace they whistles the song to us in our tender age we are the leaders of tomorrow But our eyes are fixed unmoved And the animals are there with a thorny hands we shall also pass the old song to our children so long an elegy to behold the ambassador of poverty they are they used us as political animals calm, i looked around, and stood in tears in a lost nation would the wind take me for that? The animals eat our right our body mark the spot where they bit And our heart is slowly dying in silence Hopes are dashed away in tears Dreams beyond dreams Mingling with the dying Darkness become our friend in torment We are lost in a foreign land A land of hope for us to survive are being taken over now, we are eroding into the arms of strange town we are gone in exile in weakness Trouble knocked down the smiles on our faces our rights are gone with the fools in tears Where are the leaders of tomorrow? so to say Where are our position in the noble land? we never tasted happiness nor joy can we still dance the old song? song of merriment Never! their thorns held us down, tight. the animals brought it upon us Education lost in the night war Because the animals took their offspring to a foreign land a land filled with milk and honey We are left in the night of darkness cry no more! there is hope this mountain stood i to oversee things in the heart of the brave there is hope Only fight with the wind if we apply no wisdom with determination we shall conquer our doom smile because mother earth is at our side soon or later, she would strangle them to our side And we shall take over the land and rule Because in the principle of life, it is our role. ALL RIGHT RESERVED (C) JOHN CHIZOBA VINCENT 2013