A FALLEN NATION:ENDING THE RACE OUTSIDE THE TRACK.

Author: Atusiuba Chukwutoby. 

• At the birth of  a new life, joy over flows
• The  show of love and kindness by both family and foe, 
• Like this many years ago
• We celebrated our nation’s birth with such ego Confused though 
• We did not let it bring down our soul. 
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• As the infant clocked a few months
• The natural infant mortality treat struck
• Due to the overstayed clinging days. 
• We started to faze, 
• The first strike of mortality came 
• We nearly never overcame. 
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• As months turned to years 
• The damages of the first wave was still felt. 
• In fact it was the remote of the second more deadly virus, 
• Dishonesty and fraud became the order of the day.  Like  adolescence 
• All sense of good and bad were now present
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• As she grew into a full fledged woman 
• Her life became an epitome of what parents tell their children not to be. 
• We became what our founding father warned against. 
• We the people became a couple of pot belly men in the rock. 
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• As she lay on her dying bed 
• And her life flashed in her face, she just knew the simple fact, 
• She had lost a mark, 
• She was ending the race outside the tracks. 
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