Nigerian Girl, You Are Too Fine!

You are so fine!

My Nigerian Girl

You sway in the sunlight

You laugh and mock the moonlight

You send the leaves a flutter when you alight

The future is bright with every move that abides to the cunning way

You bate the gods to your right.

The right to read and sing

The right to cook and clean

The right to write and write

The right to calculate the degrees of possibilities

That belong to you

The right to dream in peace and fight in delight

For the heart of the one who won’t let you get away

The right to mother after being mothered

The right to lay in the dark and comprehend that in the morning

You will wake up

Greet the day

And curse the henchmen who tried to steal you

But failed.