From the archives.....
A poem I wrote many years ago – when i was still a beardless teenager way back in Nigeria.. Enjoy… Waiting for forever. We had our hopes, we had our dreams, We somehow believed,in words and swords, We somehow believed, that one more coup, That some more troops, Would consign to the past, the pains we felt forever. Somehow we believed, in sugar coated tongues, In “fellow country men”,In “khaki covered men” To wipe away the past, like a bad night’s dream forever.. ...