Nigeria is like a bird that should soar rather than perch, and it is time for change in Nigeria to create a better future. The poet calls on willing leaders to climb to higher positions and use their knowledge and power to improve life for their people. Change is needed to stop corruption and misuse of wealth, and instead create a peaceful heaven, so that Nigerians can live rather than die.

1. CHANGE by J. Abah
I see faces of willing leaders!
Legs in paces climbing better ladders
Future now you sit on the throne
Your knowledge to your people you own
If here be a snoring haven
You can create a lovely heaven
The day is dawn for a change
The time is now for the change
Wear it like a chain or tattoo
Bear it in your name, and I too
Stopping our furacity to our wealth
Stripping all feathers, is ill health
To a bird that ought to fly
Not to perch but soar in the sky
Nigeria is the bird!
For peace we dress the bed
It’s time to change from lie
Lest our people live to die
Try to forge the fair design
Like that of Margie Ensign.