Bloody Barbarians (BB)
Judgment is turned away backwards Justice stands afar off
Truth is fallen in the street
Equity cannot enter
Alufansanra
Omoijonru*
A shame of shameless leaders In the enterprise of evil tycoons
They declare a 7-day fasting
They become more voracious than termites And more ravenous than the ravines As their teeth tearing flesh for flesh
Sado-masochist leaders obscenely rich While they make people abjectly poor In their evil enterprise, sacrifice Is anathema in their political lexicon
Ha! Rulers in Democracy
Of the wicked for the wicked
Of the kleptomaniacs for the kleptomaniacs Of the unholy for the unholy
The nation is made an open sepulcher Devouring the innocent hapless citizens Made vulnerable in their ignoble rule Creating woes in unheroic wars
They bake bread of affliction in oven of death They brew wine of death in brewery of blood They swallowed cities as mould of iyan To become fat fools in their Machiavellian plots
The nation, an open sepulcher
The nation, gallows in places
The nation, a huge dark void
The nation, evil sea breeding vampires
The vermin are busy in their industry Manufacturing orphans Manufacturing widows and widowers In the industry of misrule and cruelty
These Hitlers are destroying our today Sacrificing the glory of tomorrow On the altar of greed and impunity On the canvas of iniquity
Parasites on trees of glory
Sucking to death the blood of sufferers
Making ablution with blood of sufferers Mutilating flesh of the innocents to mincemeat
The blind leading the eyed
The wicked leading the righteous Pollution everywhere in carnival Turning holy field to Aceldama
The foolish are the instructors of the wise As the wise become lame and impotent With the tyranny of the buccaneers Occupying our political space
Jail breakers are the lawmakers Covenant breakers in the mills of law Dirty hands in the till of honor Dishonorable men in the factory of glory
The foolish instructing the wise In the market of ideas
The wicked converting the righteous In the bazaar of iniquities
The church breeding rogues
The mosque breeding vagabonds
The shrine crowning evil as king
All exalting unrighteousness in honor
The judiciary in a mess of pottage
Gifts corrupting minds
Bribe perverting judgment
Hallowed chambers of justice in evil cavity
The nation’s open space now landmines Darkness from open hell
Swathing the white glory
Burning apparel of bliss
They visit Jerusalem in throng
They visit Mecca in throng
They return with venom and poison To murder the peoples in droves
See them wearing hijabs in hypocrisy
See them wearing cassocks in hypocrisy See them wearing ritual shawl in hypocrisy See agents of Lucifer in white apparel Ha! Children are stillborn
In the maternity of iniquity
Glory is slaughtered in horror abattoir
All weeping in ignoble spree in sorrow-glee
They trade blood in blood for blood In the market of sin
Pitiless as raining ice in winter Insensitive as cadaver in the mortuary
Weep for a nation wallowing in oppression Swimming in miscarriage of power
Killing people like cows for money
Killing people like fowls for power
Merchants of fortune pocketing oil blocks To unleash misfortune on the people As sorrow running in furrows of fire Turning oil boom to oil doom
Tell the bloody barbarians
That when justice shall come It’ll come in flood of fury
It’ll come in whirlwind of flame
On the soapbox
They appear in flowing babariga Promising Heaven
To deliver Hell
World war fought and won
Mau Mau war fought and won Kiriji war fought and won To launch men to orbit of freedom
Men of courage Women of valour Liberty collectives
Rise up for your rights
Sounds of battles
Echoes of victory
Rise above danger No-holds-barred offensive
A nation citied on seven mountains Immersed in dim darkness Engulfed in flame of shame Swallowed up by cloud of destruction
Evil trees planted by evil men Booming as evergreen forest
Good finding it impossible to survive As light cannot penetrate the dim
The butchers put knife into our unity Through religious manipulation Through tribal and ethnic manipulation
And heads falling headlong, bowels gushing out
Evil men on evil assignment Plotting evil hegemony Planting evil in power To sustain power in evil for evil
Can ignorance be the shield? Can passivity be the victory? Can slavery be the freedom? Can darkness be the light?
No victory ever won
In the chambers of passivity To every tyranny, combat To every woe, rise against
Wake up the trumpet of freedom Blow the trumpet of glory
Power for power fight
The night shall not endure
The light of glory, beam The light of freedom, light The light of liberty, shoot To overcome the darkness
Fight a good fight of faith Fight a good fight of hope Fight a good fight of freedom Fight a good fight of liberty
Tell the bloody barbarians Judgment will come
It’ll come in flood of fury
It’ll come in whirlwind of flame! *The shepherd is feeding fat even while the flock in penury emaciates!