SALAM: (A Poem for Peace Dedicated to the Victims of Violence in Nigeria)

Why should I maim my brother,

While we need to live together?

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Why should I kill my sister,

While I need her as booster?

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Hausa, Yoruba should neither

Abuse, disgrace one another.

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Nor disregard the efforts of other’

For we need to remain together.

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Igbo, Tiv must share together

The sweat and joy of each other.

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Language should not be barrier,

Let us use it to make clear.

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We need to live closer

And tolerate one another.

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Islam, Christianity aim at prayer

To repel Satan the destroyer.

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He wants to reap from the weather

To achieve his selfish desire.

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Let us put to shame the divider,

Lest we remain destroyed forever.

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We should hasten and remember

The great call of the leader:

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“What Allah has put together

Let no man put asunder.”

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We’ve to understand one another

To remain in peace as brother’

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You and I know my brother

Came from one seed together.

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Adam and Eve lived together,

Happily, merrily in the yonder.

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Peace is wealth for us together,

Let us work and dine together.

Bashir Yahuza Malumfashi is a bi-lingual writer and poet. He hails from Malumfashi Local Government, Katsina State. He is currently a Deputy Editor with Aminiya weekly from the stable of Media Trust Limited. He is married with children. His hobby includes reading, writing and discussing on current affairs.