They Have Arisen, Those Compatriots! | Edibei Joshua Chinaecherem

I am a patriot
I represent my country with ease
I do it with a soft mountain on me,
Promises. My only ladder to grace
My rural this mountain I grace.
Unattentive giving over seedling

I am a patriot
Wondered why I don't see green on vegetable?
Why I don't see chlorophyll in leaves?
Why my kin, stunted in it's great heights?
Why my patience mock my leverage?
Why karma creak on my mass with constrain?

I am a patriot
Like a team we pull our goal to our
reward. Fortitude, a grieving widow would envy. But the goal will be haphazard, our soul will be like a piece ice in a volcano screaming summer in winter.

Poet's note: The poem is depicting the image of a Nigerian bearing the mountain of being a Nigerian. It shows the vivid picture of a once rational optimistic citizen who had glims of doubts about the future of his belove country but like every patriotic citizen of every country, he prays, hopes but knows that contrary to every fairy tales, this one does not have a better ending. This poem was written on the 10th of October,2020. It was written for the Federal Republic of Nigeria and it's citizens. I aim to express a deep sympathy for the good people of Nigeria for their continuous suffering in the torrid hands of their Leaders. I have written this to draw a portrait of how hard life is for them