Redeeming The Time

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Redeem the time for the days are evil
For the northern war is come to pass
Right before our very own eyes
Call the dust of old hither
On which we shall play the moonlight games
wherein there is no form of civilization

On which as a child
I saw myself with an ordinary  vision
about to birth an extraordinary future

On which communalism reside
The classless policy in our blood
now defiled

Redeem the time for the days are evil
For the northern war is come to pass
Right before our very own eyes

Beckon on the east and western wind
To take the rule again
Yet, take the northern flag along

For from the days of our fathers till now
We called them foolish
for their incredible ways

But it turned out that their foolishness beats our wisdom
Pointing out that to succeed we need to fuse up

Redeem the time for the days are evil
For the northern war is come to pass
Right before our very own eyes

INTERPRETATION
The poet personally beckons on the nation as a whole to come together (fuse up) lending from the days when the white had not brought their ways, the unique relationship they had in the past.
The northern war is an allusion from the Christian Bible. The poet metaphorically mentions the current issues the country have been facing VIA the Northern region.
The poem is a call to fusion of all the regions of the state, genuinely relating with one another for a better future of the nation.

-Baylow
This is a poem written by Bello Oluwasegun.

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