SOLACING NIGERIANS

To understand others seek
Promises keep, vice leave
Kind and courteous be

Loyal to those absent
regal to those
present expectations clarify
offence dequantify

Of your people's mistakes
hold not with the blades
grievance nurture not,
recall naira earned not

Is less valuable than scum
whose bowel reeks
like rum From envy stay away
upon a passion hold sway

Less dignified is cheating
not dishonourable is failing
Courage to be winning
And patience to be braving

In our bosom compassion
zooming not affectation
Oozing not
ostentation
Intending not obliteration

Course charting for Nigeria
Suppression and banishing
hysteria Despising gunshots
and bomblastia
Making peace our symbolia

© Ibrahim Adamu
30/05/2015
Presented at ANA Kano

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