POTENTIAL EMIGRANTS

He stood at the toll gate with battered regalia

Endowed with potentials which her mother land could not inspire

Greener pasture afore his abdomen decries

Another emigrant of human potential from Nigeria

His mother land failed to acknowledge his abilities

But another land applauded his capabilities

For this sake they paid for his hospitality

So he could contribute to their economy

In akimbo he wondered the fate of his motherland

Held ransom by embittered men

Where potentials abound but in slavery dens

Decisions of few men with selfish aims

The nations surround in need of our nation’s youth

In whose bowels lie inventions to transform nations from its root?

Their voyage alight at the Niger route

For potential slavery to build their nations, brutes!

They gave me few documents they called it scholarship

And another which they called citizenship

But in my hands are the receipts of my slavery transaction

Because my mother land sold my ability to another nation

Because she had no room for my creative imaginations

The pillars of acclaimed world powers we have built

Because we labored tirelessly dispensing our youthful strength

My own rejected me so another enslaved me

If I go home I would die of sorrow but here lies hope for tomorrow

The emigration of potentials still abound

The new version of human slavery to abroad

For the rebuilding of our mother land we cry

For the return of enslaved potential don't deny

kelechi ukauwa