Poetry: Home Town By: Sanni Mubarak

There where beauty and flourishes abound 

Where aspirations and hopes mingle 

There where lodged childhood memory 

My little Elysium in view 

There where rest comely macadam and 

Heartwarming sights 

Now marked in yellowness and misery 

A sign of failed promises 

A gigantic failing 

Nothing of there to show off again 

Except for dirtiness that punches 

One in the face. A grotesque whose whip is sturdy 

I see windows of laughter ajar 

On this dungeon of tears 

I see disarray, a growing mishap. All contained 

In this pandemonium 

Here is an avalanche of feelings 

Nostalgia, fear, guilt 

A land of resurgent illiteracy 

Yet have educated folks... A land of a minister 

Here where dignity is crashed 

By the bulldozer of power 

I see a rat race that prevails 

It started, even before I possess any amorous sentiment 

With this place. 

We have come home now 

Here is where the sudden roughness 

Lingers on the roads. 

I weep sincerely 

Deep anguish for this colossal loss