GRATITUDE

Thank you child trafficking

How much did you sell our hope?

Thank you human trafficking

Sell more because market will soon end

Thank you

Starvation and suffering.

It will soon end on the epitaph

Thank you prebendalism,

Thank you godfatherism,

How many dogs do you have?

Thank you tribalism,

Fighting the colours matters?

Is this our national pledge?

Thank you bribery and corruption

What a brand name!

Thank you harmed bandits

Po! Po! Po! Today is not a banger’s season.

Thank you religious crises

But who do you represent?

Thank you political violence

The language of do or die democracy

Thank you gender inequality

I enjoy! enjoy your salty meal

Thank you poor education

You left the world frustrated

Thank you modern slavery

The only option for the city at twilight zone

Thank you "yahoo-yahoo"

A fast growing,

And handsome illegality.

Thank you ghost workers,

Your smartness says it all.

Thank you electoral malpractice

After all, you left the throne uncrowned

Thank you "June 12"

A great loss you marked

Thank you foreign account

For rendering our account “ koboless “

Oh! Thank you "Boko haram"

For lives you have taken untimely.

Thank you fuel subsidy

But have you healed those pains?

Thank you clueless citizen

Who forgets her soul of duty?

Thank you plane crash

What an awesome loss

Thank you "Change"

Yes! Change at borders

Thank you herdsmen,

Your beautiful heart

Orders for more blood.

Thank you Bad governance

Your sons and daughters

Have baptized us with promises

Thank you 20:10:20

You wasted our heros,

Injured our hope,

Made us wept in blood

Thank You Next Level

When would this killing stop?

Thank you

The ups and downs

Thank you all.

©Olufemi Idowu