NEMESIS

Nemesis!

O Nemesis it is…

What are these? Am I dreaming?

What apparition plunge

My skull to constriction?

My mind’s vision

My power will to cease?

By murderers…ferocious…foreign…

And familiar sensations…

Like hired assassins!

O Nemesis it is!

Our house is crashing

Under the yoke

Of borrowed civilizations;

Atheism…Alcoholism…

 Paganism…Promiscuity and hooliganism!

While our masters

Plunder on our treasury

There is war everywhere!

And the rest of us

Wallow in abject poverty

And dine with hunger

Our indispensable mortal enemy!

Aids too…crept in silently

Like thieves to horrify our lives

With un-atonable demands

And all our manpower

Are dropping dead

By the menace of these dreaded gods

That must be worshipped

With sacrifices every seasons

O Nemesis it is!

Alas! Our future is nothing

But bleak

And there is no known hope

To lean on

Except to remember

And turn back to pay homage

To the willful Will

Of our forgotten Mighty Master.

The Plot

This powerful and thought-provoking poem was composed and written on Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at about 2:45am. The poem is a reflection on the consequential and skeletal predicaments every Nigerians find themselves today. Whatever the condition of the average Nigerian at present - economic-wise, education, political and socio-cultural problems – they are paying the ultimate price for the lots of wrong done on this Land.

This country called Nigeria, is full if sins – transported from the so called western civilization; I mean (Ignorance) by Nigerians themselves, in deviance of God’s Laws. Nigerians have long been disobeying and disregarding God’s own powerful omnipotent and omniscience laws and regulations in terms of restrictions and commandments. And the ultimate consequence of man’s obstinacy to his all-powerful God is severe punishments. Hence, NEMESI! The price paid for wrongs done, vengeance, repercussion! Therefore, the Nemesis on the sins and atrocities Nigerians have committed are the bad consequences of what we are experiencing today in Nigeria. What a NEMESI!

What a Nemesis! There is peace no more in the Land. Security is scarce like gold. People are dying of poverty and hunger. Our leaders too, are no more kind to us and there is injustice everywhere. Murder, Assassinations and Unheard Terror!...claimed supremacy. Out of hunger and thirst, our throat feels like sandpaper and our heads pound everyday like a Big Drum! AIDS…like monster Neo-gods whose eyes were as red as a burning coals unleash their terror upon our children…our youths…our future and leaders, remaining like skeletons, scarecrows of tattered rags buried on the grounds.

We have no hope for bright future as we are plunged in indefinite sufferings – the consequence of our unbelief attitudes, ignoramus behavious, cruel and self-egoistic actions and moral corruptions devoid of divine guidance. This is Nemesis! God’s vengeance!

But to get out of these pitiable mess? There is only one way! And that is to turn back to God, the omnipotent and omniscience, our creator, in repentance and respect His Will and have regards to His divine Laws and Commandments – which are sources of guidance for us…all of us in Nigeria and the world over. That is the only solution; the only way to get out of this NEMESIS!