The EndSARS Black Tuesday



Dark is the night,
Darker the soul,
Fathomless depths,
Stories to be told;

We were not armed,
but killed at the war front,
We meant no harm,
Yet our lives are gone;

We've been cut off,
In the middle of our days,
Our lives had been cut short,
Without a delay;

Our stars are darkened,
And fallen from the sky,
All our dreams have been stolen,
By this awful strife;

We thought we would fly,
Someday to lift our nation high,
Now our journey has ended,
But the struggles had just begun;

All we needed was a better nation,
A country that is worth a home,
But what we received was destruction,
A pain that took us to eternal home;

There was an anthem in our mouths,
And Flags in our hands,
We sat on the ground,
Begging for a chance.

The hard souls had no mercy,
They listened not to our cries,
They removed every CCTV,
And turned off our lights;

Tonight, our blood weeps,
The stain on the flag is the witness,
That once in history,
A nation wasted its innocent citizens;

If being a Nigerian was a crime,
You should have told us on time,
Maybe we would have found a better place,
Then get slaughtered this way.

Yes! Bullets have pierced our brains,
And slit our throats,
Our bodies have felt the pains,
But safer is our souls;

We died as heroes of our time,
A generation of change,
Youths who fought for their rights,
Youths who shall never relent;

Ours has ended,
But the struggle continues,
Someday in history,
Someone will surely remember,

"The Black Tuesday",
That night of pain,
The Black Tuesday,
the day we were slain!

About this poem

Nigeria is the most populous black nation on earth with a population of over 200 million. The country is blessed with a lot of natural resources and manpower making it to be referred to as "the Giant of Africa" by many. Despite its immense wealth, Nigeria as a country had faced several challenges that hinder its growth as the giant it should be. Examples of such challenges include poverty, corruption, insecurity, and inequality, among others. The subject of insecurity had raised a major concern, especially in Northern Nigeria where different groups of terror organizations have claimed some territories to create Islamic caliphates. The Nigerian government in response to the security challenges, set up different security arms to combat crimes in the country. One of such security units was the State Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), an arm of the Nigerian Police Force. The role of the SARS was to combat highway robbery and related offenses. Unfortunately, SARS became a menace and a  

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Written on October 20, 2020

Submitted by Abasdgreat on April 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme xxxx xxxx axxb xcdx cced dfdf xxxx gxah xxgx iixb jxjx ixhx exgx BkBk
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,532
Words 351
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Abas Obot

Abasiama Obot (Abas Obot) whose actual name is Abasiama John AkpanObot is a Nigerian, a scientist, a motivational speaker, poet, writer and song writer. He is a graduate of Microbiology from the University of Uyo, Nigeria, member Chartered Institute for Environment Health and Safety and Global Outreach member of the American Society for Microbiology. He has great passion in writing articles, stories, poems, songs and fictional works especially associated with the contemporary issues in the society. He had made several publications such as "Codigestion of Oryza sativa Husks and Musa paradisiaca Peels for the Production of Biogas" and "Application of Psychrophilic Enzymes in Biotechnology", both accessible via http://afribary.com/authors/abasiama-akpan; several poems like The Rising Yellow Sun among others. You can follow him on Facebook via https://www.facebook.com/TheInspiredQuotesandPoetry/ or blog http://abasdgreat.blogspot.com more…

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