Happy Sunday to a resilient people called Nigerians. We are unbelievably, a nation still defying all odds. May God help us as we enter a new week and I pray we live to meet again next week and to keep on holding. Pls enjoy this piece of mine dedicated to the resilience of my fellow Nigerians. May our hope never die. #MySincereCondolenceToThePeopleofKano #WeShallOvercome But My Spirit Holds Born a woman in a crazy country, surrounded by discriminatory traditions of men Born a second in an average family of 10, with all the challenges of kith and kin Born a Christian and not knowing who Christ is until Christ introduced himself to me Born and steeped in the relics of religiosity, held back by inhibitions of conventions But my spirit held Born in an impossible country, where the act of faith is a feat of its own kind Bombed with sweet colours and flavours of multi-ethnic conflation Buttered with the biliousness of religious and military severity Bested, blamed biased and held by a bootlace of hope and affection Brazenly my spirit held Balderdash swirling like clouds above me, denied a place of residence within me Bucolic lovers have become bucolic slayers of men, women and children Bodies of unacknowledged past corpses dug out of nationhood navigated in bloody murky waters of past wars Brave victims and warriors of all manner of historical injustices still crying out for compensations that may never come Brazenly my spirit held Baffled by the offensive basic instincts of a deformed mind of blind supremacy Banshee wailings of the spirit of an orphaned nation gives warning of a demise that can be prevented But the belligerence of barbaric domination will not heed the sense and sounds of times and reason Bottlenecks of ethnic, religious, regional and vested attachments obstructing the flow of life to a wheezing nation But tenaciously, my spirit held Beaten, battered, wounded, trampled and crushed Bold valiant audacious Nigeria Bestowed with the beauty of nature of mind and of resilient people Bitter braving odds, unrelenting breed of children who will not bow or yield But our spirit holds. ~ Chalya Princess Miri-Gazhi 2014 :-)
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:40:49 +0000
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