PURGE US! ELEGUSHI

 

To thee we crawl

o! tender tide of Elegushi

to bath

and wash perhaps

this once our muse make tune

 

Your sons – the dons

wield asunder

Zone A- ZONEBIE

no to parity

 

They tread on us with lips

and pens

like we share no good to beasts

and men

We turn fun skits in streets

and hood

Tears we drip

when cripple… they blab

 

Hit at us like flakes in sacks

‘blind and dumb’

they spot and point

not a mite of their thought

we worth

still the flag in pains we bear

and golds unsoiled for all we win

 

O! Mama Elegushi

rest not this time

Wash us till snow we turn!

Heal them of stigma

of neglect, of assault

and us too

of weening and whining

 

Bath us! o! bath us

till no man disbelief our strength

and all men see clearly

ability in disability!

 

Dedicated to the Team NIGERIA delegates at the Rio 2016 Paralympics doing themselves, their families and the nation proud!

Voicing the words of thousand voiceless Nigerian People Living with Disabilities.

We probably haven’t shown enough love but you haven’t been miserly with yours constantly bringing 170 million Nigerians joy and laughter and making us proud to once again call ourselves NIGERIANS.

THANK YOU!

Azeez OKEYALE