Not Yet A Nation Poem by Babatunde Aremu

Sonorous national songs
Are rendered like canaries
Hearts oblivious of the lyrics
Beautiful national anthem
Not in tandem with
Our acts, deeds and speeches

Although love is professed
The hearts habour hatred
Instead of knitting
We're scheming to tear the tents
We balkanize our land
Trekking down slippery roads

We say we're a nation
But we are intolerant
We prefer our tribes,
Religions, communities
Above common interests
We maimed and killed each other
Turning our brothers to refugees
Just to take advantage over another

Our endowed resources
Has become divided us
No zeal, no passion,
No more national devotees
The land is asphyxiated
With greed and avarice,
No one care about tomorrow

Wither the nation?
Should a nation be like this?
Should our dialect, communities,
Tongues, religions, boundaries
Take pre-eminence over the whole?
Alas, the labour of our past heroes
Laid prostate under pretense
Of lip-service love
We're not yeta nation