A NATION THAT WILL SEEK

A land flowing with milk and honey
Where human capacity building
Is the key to nation building
Where there is service well paid for
At the end of each service year

A nation whose justice system
Is working for all not just for the elite only
A nation where peace reigns
And takes the centre stage
A nation will seek

A nation where each person
Religious believe is respected
And accepted in good faith
Not undermining this person religion
Exhorting it above your own religion

A nation where elected ones in office
Are held accountable in service to the people
As the people are the ones who put them in office
Awarding workable and visible contracts
Not a ghost contract with flits of ghost workers

A nation will seek
Is a nation where everything works
Especially health sector
In which all can afford and giving no room
For seeking medical attention and appointment abroad

A nation will seek
Where our schools are up and running
Without the fear of been on strike
And no leaders children schooled outside
The shore of our great nation

A nation will seek
Where our security operatives
Are equipped with the needs materials
To make their work effective and been
At any crime scene right on time

A nation will seek
Where righteousness reign like a might streams
Where peace and justice reigns like an ocean
Where love holds no boundary
Where there is service to humanity 

Without getting nothing in return

AT 62

Will don’t know our left from right
Will don’t know which way will are headed
Will don’t know when we started
Will don’t know how long it will take to get to the promised land
At 62

Will are still chasing an empty shadow
That cannot stand erect
All because we have sold out our sovereignty
Amidst other nations of the world
Where we exist in just chasing an empty shadow

At 62
Will still crawl like a baby of yesterday
Who just got into this space called the world
Who looks back and has not yet achieved
Still going round the circle of life

Chasing what was not meant to be chased
While our land lavish in abject poverty
We are losing it all as a sunset breaks
And the land looks like it has been accused
At 62

Where did will get it wrong
By this age of ours our nations
Shouldn’t be wallowing in setback
Retrogressing instead of moving forward
At 62

We must arise as an individual
Forgetting the one in government
Because that has failed us all big time
The fixing of this nation lies in our hands
And we must save her remains before 63 comes

Is in your hands is in my hands
As elections loom around the corner
This is the best time to build our nation
For us to be better off than who we are
In the last 62 years we’ve spent as a nation

ARE WILL DEPENDENT OR INDEPENDENT?

For so long ago
Many, many years ago
Some decades way back
Will stood to sign for emancipation
To be freed from the colonial master

But many years have come and gone
Can will say of a truth
Without a shadow of a doubt
Are will really a sovereign state
Free from the dependency of foreign aid

How long shall our leaders
Go to G8 meeting to lend
Miga pinot that will enslave
The whole nation born and unborn
Into debt servicing how long shall stand

At the mercy of foreign aids
To run the affairs of our nation
Begging from one continent to another
Living from hand to mouth
Yet we are screaming but wait

Before you scream
Happy independent day
Are we are really dependent or independent
While so many of our leaders
Have turned into parasites living under the host

Milking the nation's treasure
While the masses pay dearly for it
Inflation is rising high and Tax is overkilling
And yet we say we are independent
While most of the nation's consumption is imported from outside

So my dear fellow countrymen and women
Before you chant the independent song
Make sure you do ask yourself
An honest thought-provoking question
Are will dependent or independent

THE SPIRIT OF GRATEFULNESS

Like the Spirit that came
Upon king David it came that day
As the sanctuary is filled with grateful worshippers
The electrifying voice of the people
As the singers choir lift up their voice

The Spirit of David came down
The whole house was filled
With the spirit of dance each one
Everyone expresses their joyfulness
Both in singing and dancing unto the Lord

In the Spirit of gratefulness

Heart and hands are lifted high
To the most High who sit on
The throne on High with a melodious tune
All with one mind, soul and body

So grateful for everything
For life and family
For good health and protection
For manifold increase in all sides
Grateful oh my God to You for everything.

ABORTION: OUR NEXT ELECTION

Open your heart, let the effulgence of this light I'm about to share, walk through your arteries and flush out every dark areas filled with inhumane blood flowing in your veins.

Why will another long term of service in a worthy seat of honour become a battlefield for jocularity and idiosyncratic walkthrough?

Africa is a continent with great elites and noteworthy figures who can shake the world with what's in our hands. Nigeria, a nation, whose millions of citizens are recognized all over the world yet her top leadership seat is not sheathing her sword of ill-mannerism and inability to cause a positive change.

Here, our next election, hits us soon with all activities/schedules of voting been made available at every nooks and crannies in state governments, cities and its suburbs. And, we all shout, 'solidarity forever'.

When a husband got pissed off because of lack of funds to manage his wife and four kids. Along the way, she got pregnant again in same poverty. And everyone advised that she abort the child even if the foetus is 7 months old.

I ask myself, "Is that the needed solution to the problem?"

What a painful lifestyle!

In same vein, this kind of scenario is been played out in our elections - whereby we're in dire need of a solution to the mess of the nation and still yet, many advisers come together to abort the already impregnated ideas of the right candidates because of godfathers order, money bags, selfishness and bad agendas.

Leadership position is not a do or die affair neither is it a call to unbridled power against your fellow human. Let your heart judge you!

A stranger I met says, "Election, election, election. What will be, will be; and nothing can change it in this nation, Nigeria." What a shame!

Will our civil right to vote be aborted again? Won't our votes be discarded and trashed? When will the chosen candidate with the highest vote stop deceiving us?

In these questions, are answers that we need to take to heart and be ready to dedicate our lives by coming together as a nation poised to eradicate bad and ineffective leaders whose bellies are their gods and pockets, a bloody mint.

Embrace a free and fair election, tilt your heart towards building a great nation and don't allow your vote to be a waste by selling it off for filthy amount of naira. Don't vote for the sake of selfish reason. It pays to vote for the benefit of all Nigerians and let's join hands together for the unity of ethnicity, religiosity, and a common purpose - peace and love.

Wisdom is spelt out in this micropoetry of Omar Nassar on corruption which explains the reduced honour of our so-called leaders and their leadership styles.

Where life is always uncertain

when corruption is the fountain

of every perceived earthly evil

money can break a mountain

and the corrupt can rarely be evil

because they belong to the devil.

Conclusively, this coming election must not be a norm of abortion that had been around us for donkey years. 

Transformation is not lip say, it's a paradigm shift for new heights beyond the usual to unusual act of undaunted patriotism.

Know that, your civil right is voting right on election day.

Thanks. God bless you.

© HOTONU Olasunkanmi

Lagos, Nigeria

FINALLY IS HERE: THE CAMPAIGN BELL

They are preparing
Marching so hard
Getting the drums ready
About to lunch out to deep
They are not taking chances

Is finally here
The campaign bell
Is ringing at a high crescendo
Each is pitching its tenth
They must do all they can to win people's heart

Will must be on alert
As they come with sweet tongues
Same story... the same plot
Same music...the same dance
Make sure you are not sweet off

Stand firm stay
Stay strong in your conviction
Don't let their bell confuse you
Do your background checkup
And then follow your heart

Because we cannot continue like these
Things have to change and this is the time
To get it right if we must move forward
From the state we find ourselves today
To that place of a better land for all.

Finally is here the campaign bell

TIME, CHANCE AND SEASON.

Life is in phases
Each stage are meant to be that way
Is a natural thing and one shouldn't rush
Everything is planned from the creation
By the creator that created the creature

The creature you said yes
And that creature is you
You have time to bloom
That is a chance at life
Each season manifests as you take one step

And is one step at a time
When you jump a process
There abound to be problems
So follow the details
Don't run ahead of God's calendar for your life

Chance, time and season
The chance you are were
You are today does mean
The time of your announcement hasn't come yet
But if you fail to not wait for your season

You die before your maturity date
While you are still in your embryo state
Make sure you follow your time
Never be too quick or be in haste
To become known in the limelight

Are you gifted in a particular area
Does the call of God upon your life
Is manifesting little by little
And you feel and think you have to arrive
My friend you haven't because I believe there is more.

So think twice but you start manifesting
So reason well enough to be in alignment
So make sure you prepare well in the dark
Before you start sharing the light out there
Everything in life is all about

Chance, time and season.

CHOSEN

Chosen by God not by man
Helped by God not by Man
Lifted by God not by man
Bless by God ñot by man
Favour by God not by man

Chosen and called out by God
Given His name to bear
Graceful graciously helped
Greater provision by God not by man
Radiating God's glory not man's glory

Chosen
To be a pathfinder for Christ
In taking the gospel of Jesus Christ
To the dying word with God's own living world
To liberate mankind from the power of sin

Chosen
To bear the mark of Christ
No one should bother troubling him
Because such a one is hidden in Christ
As the life such a one lives is of Christ

Chosen
To be called out of the mixed multitude
To stand alone in spite of the flows of sin
Parade in the society as others may such a one
Can not meddle with sin to muddle up
The Word of God

Chosen by Christ
To fulfill Heaven's mandate
Here on earth in preparing
People for Heaven in getting
To meet their Maker at the end of time.

DEAR TEACHERS, EDUCATORS AND INSTRUCTOR

Are you teaching for the now
Or you are teaching for the future
There is a lot to be done
In our educational system
In its way and manner we impact

The teacher is the most critical being
In our society where we found ourselves today
If we want to see the future you desire
You have to create such a future by yourself
Dear educators, teachers, and instructors

That impact Knowledge into these beautiful
Young vibrant teens and teenagers
As a career teacher you are
What basis are you building on
For now or for the future

An educator
Who refuses to see the big picture
Beyond today will always be tie
To the past result of doing things
Such an educator we still teaching in the past

There is no special school
We train our leaders they are rise up among us
The role of the teacher is critical
Learning in the 21st century is a critical
Role of a teacher, educator and instructors.

FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE

To our leaders whose
Verge from here to there
City to cities chant their manifesto
Promises yet to be brought to the limelight
In verging for a position to rule their people

Public leaders must swear
To uphold unwritten law and weep
To atone for their presumption to hold office
In utmost sincerity and honesty
From the republic of conscience

Whose still much alive and kicking
Whose heart is still much soft
Soft to the plight of the people
In which the same leaders are leading
From the republic of conscience

In whose republic
Our dear nation was birthed and born
Who’s upon the fabrics of our mother
Who’s our fatherland is built on
From the republic of conscience

What kind of leader are you
As you go around verging for political office
Are you really who you are portraying yourself to be
Will you still maintain this humility and selflessness
Upon the resumption of office if you win the election

Will your conscience still be much alive
Or half alive when the election result is announced
Where you place those who voted for you
In sun, rain and cold chilled weather
From the republic conscience

HIT THE ROAD

Go the distance
Leave the comfort zone
Never look back
Cross the bridge and burn it
Hits the road

Never come back home
Walk the work
Take on the mile
Zoom off like a cheetah
Hit the road

Burn the bridge behind
Never come back home until
You make it out there on the road
Stay up early and late
To come to victory line

Hit the road
Be prepared it won’t be easy
Out there are full of speed bumps
Some we wear you out
Others will retard your journey

But make sure
When you come to face these times
In your journey of hitting the road
Your strength will be tested
Your perseverance and endurance will be tested

As you sojourn in tasting the taste of victory
Be ready well equipped because a lot of storms
Will come in face off with you
So get your heart strong like a made-up mind
That come hell hot water you will stand not bowling to defeat

Hit the road
And go make marks in the annual of history record
Be ready, prepare and focus on one certain goal
For you to reach the goal you need focus
Get up and get going time running out on you

THE CALL

It is not about the tribe
Neither is it a call for one man
But is about Nigeria for Nigerians
Is a nationalism clarion call
The call of rebirthing a nation

A nation that has forgotten
Who's suffering has reached the height
We are doing it for us not for one man
The country cannot continue to go down
This road for so long we need to chart a new course

Unifying voice of solidarity
We must bring all hands to the deck
Ready to soil our hands for our land
For the good of this great nation of ours
The call is coming today to make it a great nation again

You all need to know this
Will must shun the old ways
Appointing a leader into a leadership position
Because it is not about religion anymore or party
The call is for all

Away from slumber
Wake up and catch the fever
Of revolutionizing our mentality
Toward appointing a leader that will make it happen
Because we need to save the remains of this country.
The call...

FRUSTRATION AND DENIAL

Life is upside down
The more we live
We get so deep in all shit 
In all forms and way 
It hits us to the extent of eating deep inside

We get worked up
We get locked out
From the world we live 
Surrounded by our own thought
Lost in the thought of a painful memory

The sight of denial 
sprung up to hurts so deep 
Inside of us we lost it out
Our emotion gets the best of us
Frustration and denial 

A monster that will must not toiled with
As one must keep it far from one
Never to let it come this close ever
To ruin our existence and waste it all
All our dreams, goals and ambition 

Like life it lives inside of us
Like a thief it comes to steal
Like a shadow it follows us all the place
Like a second name it has a sign on us
Frustration and denial 

But is up to you 
To take the stand 
Not to allow it get the best of you
Be at your guard at all time 
To take the stand and guide your heart

Doing all that makes you happy
As no one has the responsibility 
To do that for you but you yourself
Should be the source of your own happiness 
Never measure your own achievement

With other people own because
At this point that is when you open yourself up
For these two deadly monster to get into you.

ADVERSITY 'N' TRUTH

A path that all dares 
So much with all what they got
As the truth is sometimes hurting
As its shades so many lights 
To the things in the darkness

And when it comes 
Everyone is scared 
Only for those whose hands 
Is not clean as they approach 
The throne of equity and justice

Adversity on the other hand
Is the wheel on which all other

Things rest on making it 
A pathway to truth 
The truth 

The lights that beams
The hour of darkness
The colour that adds
The hidden dark colour to all to see
The path to truthfulness and honesty 

The truth burns 

The deceptive tongue 
When the truth reveals itself
No matter how it is hidden
It we are seen and revealed on the rooftop 

Adversity makes one tougher 
Stronger and fit to face life issues
Sharing it all to withstand the weakness
Of the body when the storms of life 
Surmerg our hope revoking it all.

THE CHURCH

Is never a place
Where critics criticize
The people coming into the church
As it should be come just as you are
Not come clean nor pretend

But come with an open mind
To listen to God's Word
be touched by the power in His Word
Is never a place for the holier than though
Set of being but come as you are

The church is a hospital for sinners
Who are drenched and soaked in sin
Who needs urgent purging
From the sin that leads to the death
But been saved from the pit of hell

The church is not a place nor
A museum for saints
But a gathering of saints
Whose life is a pointer to the one
In sin to bring such a sinner to become a saint.

Christ died for all not just for
One set of people both for
The saint and sinner for all
So all will enjoy the greatest gift
Of Salvation out sin into His light

THE DANGER OF LOW EXPECTATION

It all starts within
From the inside, it shows outside
We chase what doesn’t fit to chase
As we begin to lose the essence from within
The danger of low expectation

Will begin to fade out of ourself
To become what our minds tell
Right from within we sold out
Our confidence of ourself in ourself
Our esteem drips and drops at the crescendo

It looms so close that we can see it
Coming from afar until it gets to us
Hitting us like a thunderbolt
Shakes us to the fiber of our existence
We begin to lose the essence of our existence

Our expectation about us drops
Little by little it fades out from our sight
And beclouded us with what we were not
As we begin to settle into what we did not bargain for at first
We resign to fate and flow along with it

You begin to settle for that
Which is not your value
Which is far below your standard for existence
Remember how it started
From inside of us it grew like a tree outside

It all starts from within
From the inside of us
Because desperation will make you
Settle for something that is
Not your value and your worth

The danger of low expectation
It is like an epidemic a ravaging monster it is
It fears no age and status
You must make sure you are well equipped
To face it when it comes

There’s a danger a great danger of low expectations watch it

GO TELL MAMA SAY

Say e get as things be
Everywhere no bi the same
Street no dey smile like before
Water self no dey inside drum again
Small money no fit buy plenty things

Motor don leave our economy
So long we don dey find watin no loose
As government dey play us
After one administration fine another come
Still on still on the matter we no move forward

Tomorrow no pure again
As tomorrow dey far from today
Even today self to see tomorrow
Na on God as na Him sure pass for now
Go tell mama

Say pikin dem no dey house again
As house na don turn to where you
Fit find pikin during school time
Go tell mama say money dey pursue
Few commodity for market there

Our money don miss road
As dollar don use beating
Beat 'em finish so tall
Our money no get mouth again
Where dollar day go tell mama

Say our mumu don do
We don hear so many fake promise
Dey don use politrick trick us
Corni man dem don corny us die
Go tell mama say our suffer don too much.

WHEN TOMORROW COMES

Be rest assured to welcome it
With open arms with a willing heart
To make each second in such a day work
Never for once take it lightly
When tomorrow comes
 
Be ready to run the race
Be ready to stay strong
Be ready to account well for it
Be so ready to give it your best shot
When tomorrow come.
 
For tomorrow the sun will shine
For tomorrow the dusk will fade
For tomorrow the dawn will set in
For tomorrow the tears will be dried
When tomorrow comes
 
Is a new brighter day for us
Is a great dawn of a great awakening
Is a dream come true moment
Is the birth of a new dawn
When tomorrow comes
 
Tomorrow is sure for the one
Who is ready to prepare today
While it is called today
As tomorrow never dies
Welcome to your day today
 
Because when tomorrow comes
You'll be fine and great
So no matter how now today is
Get hold of yourself breath a new fresh air
For when tomorrow comes you'll be fine.

WHEN MADU MEET ANUMANU

It takes all sorts of people
To make up this world
Where we live in black and white
Short and tall...thin and thick
Madu and anumanu

All are made by the Creator
Some are living or others
Are merely existing without not
Living out their potential and purpose
Of their actual existence

When madu meets anumanu
There we always are a clash
Of ideas and reasoning
Soon the later we want to override the former
All in the sense of becoming the best
But reality has it that

A fool will strive in the company of a fool
But will never strive in the company of the wise
As this becoming a long age of war
When madu meets anumanu
Ideals will cross

Opinions will be questions
Ego will want to surface
As modernity will come in face of mediocrity
When madu meets with anumanu
So many are out there

Walk along life street
Some are madu who make things happen
Some anumanu just watching and mere living
When madu meets anumanu
They almost lost it

Sees everyone as a threat
With the low mentality of reasoning
Nothing to offer but drunk with
Dominating spirit anumanu not far from being
Where did you belong

Are you madu or anumanu?
How we you die a fool or a wise fellow?
What impact are you making today in your world?
Are you merely existing or just running a rat race?
When madu meets anumanu issues we come up.

GRATEFUL FOR YOUR AMAZING GRACE

All that I am
All that I have
All that I will become
For the present and the future
Am grateful for Your amazing grace
 
Where will I have been
If you have not been on my side
How would rise to meet
The morning of each day
For Your tender mercies is always close beside me
 
 
For all, You’ve done
And for all that You’ll do
I give You thanks for it all
Because I don’t know how my life
Would have turned out without You being far from me
 
Lost You made a way for me
Out of the wilderness of life
You showed up and show the way
Supplying all my needs in a moment of drought
Grateful for your amazing grace
 
Grace unmerited
Favor surround
Your presence is always there
Your loving kindness and faithfulness cometh alive
Every morning I feel your presence all around
 
So many words to say
So many things to do
Your goodness all around me
As I give You all the praise
In my going out and coming in
 
Am grateful for my family
Am grateful for life
Am grateful for supernatural provision
Am grateful for your 24/7 protection
Am grateful for your amazing grace