What is it like for a country to be independent?
Apart from being free from em whites' control,
Will the citizens be wretched like the people here
Or will they be tagged negatively like the people from here?
What is it like for a country to be independent?
Please tell, I pray you,
Will the country be tainted with impunity
Or riddened with corruption like it is around here?
What is it like for a country to be independent?
In countries like that, will democracy be masked by autocracy?
What of the rule of law?
Does it exist in an independent country?
What is it like for a country to be independent?
Will the citizens be independent too
Or will the independence be limited
only to those at the helm of affairs?
What is it like for a country to be independent?
Is the independence just about the colour of the rulers
Or is it about the state of the country?
Please tell, I pray you, If Independence defines here.
©Akinwole John Akintayo