THE RAPE OF A PEOPLE!

Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 12:37am Edit Note Delete
BOLTED TO MY IMAGINATION ARE THE SEA OF MEMORIES AND THE INNUMERABLE TIMES I RECOUNT THEM, TIMES WHEN I WOKE UP BEFORE DARKNESS WALKS AWAY FROM LIGHT... TOOK A BATH WITH LESS THAN A LITTER OF WELL WATER, HALF RUNNING AND HALF DRESSING UP...DONW THE STREETS I WALK BRISKLY! ECHO NAVIGATING MY WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS,HALF AFRAID I MIGHT DASH MY FEET AGAINST A STONE OR A BROKEN BOTTLE USED TO LANDFILL THE ROADS...i WAS USED TO THE PUTRIDE SMELL OF THE LAGOS GUTTERS. APPROACHING THE BUS STOP WAS THUNDEROUS BLARRINGS OF THE HORN AND PEOPLE SCREAMING THE DESTINATIONS...I WOULD HAVE TO CHASE MY LINOUSINE ONE MILE DOWN THE STREET BEFORE I COULD FIND INCHES OF SPACE TO LOG ONE LEG IN AND HANG WITH ONE HAND, HALF IN AND HALF OUT...SITTING ON THE FENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH COS IF MY HAND GOT TIRED AND I LET GO, THE ASHPHALT WOULD GLADLY EMBRACE ME! AMIDST THE CHAOS CAME LAMENTATIONS OF A KINGDOM TO COME AND A SAVIOUR WHO DIED FOR WHAT WE 'DO SUFFER...AS PROCLAIMED BY THE PREACHER WITHIN. I HAVE HEARD THOSE LINES SO MUCH SO IT WALKS THROUGH AN EAR AND LEAVES THROUGH THE OTHER, I WAS ALMOST ALWAYS CONTEMPLATING IF GOD KNEW WE EXISTED ON HIS EARTH.THE MANY LIVE IN SLUMS AND WAKE UP EARLY ENOUGH TO RELIEVE OTHERS ACCROSS THE MARINA WHERE THE FEW RICH NEVER CRIES!LIVING IN TWO WORLDS SIDE BY SIDE..A PEOPLE WHO EVERYDAY IS STRIPPED OF THEIR DIGNITY AND REPEATEDLY RAPED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY ITS GOVERNMENT, A FEW ELITE WHO INDEED HAVE HARDLY ANY CARE FOR THE RIVERS THAT BLEED CRUDE OIL AND TAKES AWAY THE LIVELYHOOD OF A PEOPLE, FARMLANDS THAT ARE DRUNK WITH FOUNTAINS OF BLACK GOLD SHIPPED TO THOSE WHO NEED TO SUSTAIN LIFE AND IN RETURN PAY BACK WITH MARE EXISTENCE!THE CHILDREN WALK MILES TO FIND THE NEAREST SCHOOLS, SCHOOLS WHERE ONE MAY SEE THE HEAVENS THROUGH ITS ROOF WHILE LEARNING TO BREAK FREE FROM THE CRUSHING HANDS OF POVERTY...!SHE WEEPS AS SHE IS RAPED, WHEN HER KIDS ARE AWAKENED BY HER SCREAMS AND DARE TO SPEAK OUT, THEY ARE FETTERED OR MUDERED. PROGRESS AND SUCESS AND HOPE COUGHT THE LAST BUS OUT OF TOWN...FOR THE INJUSTICE OF A PEOPLE DONE TO THEIR OWN BLOOD BY THEIR OWN ROOTS...HMMMMMM YET SHE LIE AWAKE STILL BREATHING GIVING BIRTH TO SECTIONAL UPRISINGS IN DIFFERENT CORNERS OF THE HOUSE, PEOPLE MUDER OTHERS FOR MARE CHANGE, KIDS RUN ALONG ON THE FREEWAYS..ALONGSIDE TRUCKS AND VEHICLES WITH 30 CENTS WORTH OF BREAD TO EKE OUT DAILY SURVIVAL. YET SHE SLEEPS WITH AN EYE OPEN IN FEAR OF THE NEXT ROUND OF ABUSE OR EVENTUAL DEATH...SHE HAD SCREAMED ENOUGH FOR THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION, YET THOSE WHO ARE DRESSED IN ALLURING CLOTHING AND SITS BEHIND OAK AND CIDAR TABLES FAR AWAY IN THE WEST ARE TOO FAR TO HEAR THE ECHOES OF HER LAMENTATION, EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW THE MESSAGES, THEY PAY NO HEED COS THE POWER FOR THAT CHANGE WE TALK ABOUT ARE SOURCED FROM HER LOINS...THE ENERGY THAT SUSTAINS HER ADDICTION ARE SOURCED FROM EACH EPISODE OF HER RAPE!EVEN WITH ALL THAT SURROUND ME, I DARE NOT FORGET MY ROOTS FOR THERE WAS NO BETTER PLACE I COULD HAVE BEEN BORN THAN WITHING HER HOUSE...NIGERIA,THE MOST DIVERSE OF PEOPLE,THE MOST EDUCATED BLACK NATION ON EARTH, THE MOST RESOURCEFUL PEOPLE AFRICA COULD EVER BOAST OF,SURELY THE RICHEST...YET A PEOPLE LIVING WITH THE PAINS OF CONTIUOUS RAPE! DARE TO FORGET!...