Green Visions

I'm curious about you, miss Niger
At sixty, you're unmarried yet you are filled with children
I term it underdevelopment, oh! unprogressive damsel.

The caterpillar is now eleven years old; counting from twenty eleven to twenty twenty
Visions planned longer than a long night
Morning shows off burnt people, burnt market, burnt health, burnt freedom, burnt airport, burnt rights and people's choice
If the morning is not clear
How will the afternoon and evening be?

We clasp our hands and watch
Or our efforts as low as burnt candlelight
As the tree of our success die
While we can actually make it grow

Will our caterpillar of wishes born eleven years ago die as caterpillars?
Won't it one day grow into a butterfly of reality?
Let's pray for our Country
But I'm really curious about you miss Niger.

Delumozie Sandra Uche
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/30/2020

Poet's note: I wrote this poem, January 2020 for Nigeria, my country. I wrote it based on the situation of things in the Country then. In 2011, Nigeria made their vision 2020 planning for a better Nigeria. Our flag is green, white, green, making it green visions. I was curious about the long expected 2020 that was why I wrote this poem for Nigeria.
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