Garbosa Poem by Ibrahim Sambo

Peace and harmony
Heart of your angelic kingdom
Love and empathy
Lingo of your throne.

Ancient, tireless
Sempiternal blessings
Efflux your palace
Lavishing the land
With lushness and plenitude.

Behold!
The Towering
Beauteous, historied
Inviolable city of our heart
Donga!
Ornaments the riverfront.

But when your soothed storm
Is enkindled from its den
Prostrate at your feet
Praying to be let
Is Loya's valorous blade
Behold, its wrathful blaze
Gobble foes in their sheath.

Aloft the unceasing river
Red in its candid flow
Relish your deathless throne.

Relax firmly, great Garbosa
Shiniest star of majesties
Your ageless reign
Lives on.

Same Garkiye
selfsame Gargbanyi
Very same Garbasa
All, same Garbosa
Gara Donga
Reign on.


19/03/2017
@ Jalingo, Nigeria