arise oh compatriots
arise oh my zealous youth
arise oh my valour soldiers
arise oh my brave leaders
Our home is breaking
our land is falling
out dignity is plunging
and our cause is astray,
Arise oh compatriots
this is a call to all
violence we will end
conflictwe must shun
and racism we must stop,
Arise oh compatriots
we and only we can save our mother land
we and only we can make our home better again
but only we can achieve this
through deligence, benevolence,
sacrifice and perseverance,
So arise oh compatriots
together we can make Nigeria better again,
So I pray to God of all creation
to grand this our only request
to help us built a nation
where no man is oppressed
Amen.
©Abdulrauf Muhammad
Date 01 October 2019
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
I love your spirit and more so the beautiful poem. But I beg to differ on the idea of compatriots arising to rescue what is not, has never been, and will never be. It will serve us profitably well to acknowledge that Nigeria is neither a motherland nor a fatherland but a terribly failed British experiment we tenaciously hang on to our detriment.