LET US PRAY

Our father who art in heaven
Please watch over us your people
You had a perfect plan for mankind
But out of disobedience and selfishness

Man relationship, trust and love for You fell
How can we explain the killings and war
Prostitution, fornication and adultery
Stored in the barn of our very hearts

Today, we are suffering out of negligence
Perishing for lack of understand
Lust for sinful thoughts upon vanity
Living lives contradicted to Your words

Father, please help us overcome this trying times
You choose to create man in your own image
And breathe life into his lungs
Because You saw  his uniqueness

Forgive us our trespasses and deliver us from the evil in our lands
Provide our daily bread and protect our children from harms
We are foolish not to acknowledge our weaknesses and faults
 Reluctant to the purpose Christ was crucify on the cross

We blindly choose to follow our own path
A path that leads to destruction and condemnation
And trade our souls at the gates of hell
This has led to the extinction of  our generation

We are sorry for taking your patience for granted
Please send forth the holy spirit to comfort us
Let there be peace and love once again in our lands
And your grace rest upon man now and forevermore 

AMEN

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A LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT

I am constrained to write to you Mr President 

For I am a victim of the ill fated society we live in
I have been betrayed, neglected, prosecuted and castigated
I grew up in a neighborhood without compassion, patriotism and love

As I grew older, life became a shadow of it past glory
No light to sit at home to watch the news on television
Streets are no longer safe to walk at night
Roads are flooded when it rains

The innocent stigmatized by law enforcement agencies
Spent more years to graduate in university
Extra years at home searching for a job
Yet they keep saying nothing comes easy 

Dad has worked and retired in service after thirty five years
Pensioners carrying plank card on the news
Just to remind the government of gratuities not been paid
While the standard of living is depreciating

Price of foods increasing, workers laid off daily
There is fuel scarcity and cost of transportation is on the high
We can't find pipe borne water to drink
Yet we have abundant rivers and dams

Roads are abandoned, also is the value of and average man's life
Hospitals not well equipped, doctors not well paid
Only the rich gets fair hearing and justice
The poor prays and wait for another day

I tried not to lay blame on anyone
But if we all say we are innocent, yet refineries are not working
Don't you think its high time someone takes responsibility?
There is no point arguing about the standard of life today

Its further worst and deteriorating every day
The saint have prayed many times
But the devil seem to be the one wearing the crown
For our leaders have sold there souls to corruption

What happened to peace, love and unity?
Where are the strength and courage of our heroes past?
Whom once lived in the lands cultivated by our forefathers
No tribal wars and killings, no starvation and diseases

It broke my trust the day the leaders we voted in spit on our faces
They tried to take away our loyalty and dreams
And tried to replace it with wickedness and greed
Told us Nigerians, the youths have no future

Please, tell me this is all but a lie
When you told us there will be change
It sincerely came from the depth of your heart
That the lots we cast, will bring back the sun in our lives

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I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU

Ever since I met you on that tender day 

I seem to fall in love with you up to today
Sorry I am still new to this felling call love
But I could never forget your soft words and tender touch

Tell me how can I live without you?
How can I sleep without dreaming about you?
How can I ever forget about you?
I really don't know what else to do


I can never forget how it feels like dying in our arms
How you took my breathe away in the class
I couldn't hide my feelings from you
When I can't stop thinking about you

I know we've been apart for a while
Maybe you've found someone new and beautiful
But no one can love you the way I do
No one can keep your heart warm like I do

Where ever you follow your dream
Please, let me come along on the trip
I really want to reconcile my feelings
So I can forever be in your arms

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