A Poem by EMMANUELA FELIX
That side of a country
Where freedom of speech
Wear hate regalia
Threatening the conscience
Of civic spokesmen
Zipping up the mouths of delegates
Defeated by the matchless might of rats
My lips are sealed
My words expressed in a sneer
I’ll hide them until to millennium
After this regime has join our ancestors
To be told as legend at Utopia
It will remind the great judge
Of the heat in this Niger area
How mankind were tied with stone
And thrown into the deep
How sons were ransom for herds
And autocratic pythons dance
To democratic drumbeat
Let the big brother’s eyes watch!
Until then, I’ll pour out
The ink in every pen
Not as dry ink is to aimless rod
But to cross red lines
Under diplomatic democracy
Let thoughts and opinions
Die alive and unheard.
We wave the flag in white and green.
