Silent please!
This is not the time for celebration
But a time to look back to our memories.
Can we have a conversation?
About the country in transition
Who after years of freedom
Is still searching for definition.
Can we have a conversation about the Nationalist?
Who stepped forward to won us independence
Who laughed in his hardship
And cry in his joy.
Can we talk about the citizen?
Who gathered to form a nation
Progenies from different tribes
Crowds of visions and evils.
Can we mourn the Military Regime?
Who abandon our constitution
Who make a misery of our right to a normal self-respecting life
Who make us lose hope on our nation.
Can we talk about the system of government we celebrate here?
Are we proud to tell our children
We celebrated gerontocracy here and not democracy.
Can we look back at the journey so far?
And the distance yet uncovered
For it is not the name that makes a nation
But the leader and the people who proudly confess.
Can we look at each other’s eyes
And find the courage to love and trust
For we did not emerge from this country
The country found life from us
We are one Nigeria.
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