"The fight for tomorrow" by Ajibike Oyindamola

The bitter pangs of deception

Filtering through our bellies

Almost making us retch

Because we had been deceived again

We had fallen for their sugar-laced lies

Diving in head first

And it did hurt

Like being stabbed with a dagger

A dagger being twisted over and over

And perhaps once again

God has forsaken us

So we march into battle

Putting aside our differences

We swayed to the rhythm of battle

Of a war worth fighting for

A war for change

We’d get weary in battle

Fall and get back up

Because like those before us

What we have, would keep us going

As we fight for tomorrow

A better ‘morrow

And in the end

Perhaps we’d be conquerors

God might forsake us

But maybe we are God.

Ajibike Oyindamola is a 300-level student of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science of the University of Ibadan.