Poem: IN THE PIPELINE

The people craved
For an end to
Pollution
Access to education
Health and structures
Ah, and a fair share
Of the nation’s wealth
“Oh,’ says the government
“The things you asked for,
We have ‘em in the pipeline”

Soon patience, and hopes
Came crashing
As poverty and neglect,
Ravaged the land
Flowing with oil,
Blooming with gas
“The things we asked for, whence comes them?”
Again says the government
“The things you asked for, are in the pipeline.”

Hungry and Hopeless
Angry and armed
Youth of the Delta,
Turned on the pipelines
With dynamites, and rockets
Guns, and grenades

Lo, and behold
The things they asked for
Are truly in the pipelines

Tis a tale of the Delta
A Nigerian Tale


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