A Great Country - By Sunny Arome

A Great Country - By Sunny Arome

There was a country where we foresaw more than half of a yellow sun, where we believed things would never fall apart no matter the paleness of the purple hibiscus, no matter how tight the thing, bonds around our necks were.

There was a country where hope brought about ease in the land, where a mother’s choice was held paramount and even if a chap claimed to be an Americanah, he would fall to order when the Judge and Jury question his identity.

There was a country where petals of blood were seen and not ignored, where cases of husbands going mad were dealt with forthwith, where men of the people took a stand against pride, prejudice and bore arrows from the gods for their people.

There was a country where the beautiful ones were cradled in due season, where the people never walked in darkness and old men never went to the sea….where merchants came from Venice and rich men came from Babylon. A country where people held journeying to the heart of the sea in search of big fish in high esteem and abhorred stooping low to conquer scrooges, a land where the young ladies preferred their native names to names like “Serena” and the Lordships were more concerned about justice than gold rings.

There really was a country where even the longest rides were pleasurable and anthills graced the savannah, a land where animals stayed on farms and deal brokers were incorruptible judges in echoey hard times….there was and there will be A Great Country.

Sunny Arome

Arome Sunny, is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State. He has been writing for a while now and his writings cuts across poems, inspirational writeup, drama etc, he enjoys translating his imaginations and thoughts into writing for the benefit of mankind.
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