POETRY: MY COUNTRY HAS GONE MAD | EHIZOJIE EGBADON

My country has gone mad

The Binis and Igbos are not the same?

My country has gone mad

The Muslims and Christians are not the same?

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Roses are red

And so are the lilies

So are the daisies

And so are the blossoms

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My country has gone mad

Whose father was not taken a slave?

Whose mother did not worship deities?

My country has gone mad

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You say we are not the same

We should go our separate ways

But we are bound by blood and chains

By time and space

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My country has gone mad

Like the ones who ran naked

Like the man who ate his excrement

Like a woman who sucks her own breast

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My country is a threat to herself

My country is choking on suicidal tendencies

My country has a gun to her heart

My country has gone mad.

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