Where dreams die

City of shattered dreams
Where they hold us down
In chains.

Blessed Eid 2016, as celebrated.

         

Few weeks ago, I was reading up on the similarities shared by the Christian and Muslim religious respectively. I got to learn how Christianity and Islam share a lot, from both their identical versions of the creation story, to their accounts of Abraham's existence. I thought had seen enough until I was surprised by the Qur'an's account of Jesus Christ's extraordinary splendour, mentioned as Isa. I learnt a lot from Wikipedia and the whole Internet that day, but I had, yesterday, realized that,  there was one very important fact, Wiki didn't share. That is, both Christians and Muslims are God's children, we all crave for the same things, a good life here on earth and better life after death, and we all love celebrating.

A Country of Political Analysts.

     

On the last Sunday of the month of June in 2016, I was early enough to make it half way into the Sunday school class. I sincerely can not remember the topic of the Sunday school lecture, but I can remember quite vividly that i heard the words "Buhari" and "Change" more times in a Church environment than I have ever heard before in one place. At some point, I found it hard to differentiate between Church and the newspaper stand at Okokomaiko bus stop.

"That is the change we are all suffering, because we have refused to read our Bible". Unsure of the relationship between the Bible and our now predicament with change in the country, I paid absolute attention to what the Sunday school teacher had to say next. " The book of Proverbs chapter 24 vs 21 made it clear to us not to meddle with people who come to us with change, because their calamity is sudden, just like it is in Nigeria now,  but we refused to listen. Some did not even know that the all knowing God had warned us about APC long before now because they refuse to read their Bibles and understand God. See this Bible " as he raises his very big and 47years old looking Bible over his head to show the whole church, "it is full of empirical facts, the bible will arrest and convict you of your sins, with empirical facts and strong evidence you can't deny, unlike the EFCC under this Buhari man, who arrests you first puts one on media trial, and then scramble for the first piece of evidence lastly. " At this point I left like asking the Sunday school teacher,  if we were still church, but it seemed an unforgivable thing to do, interrupting a man in his zone. Moreover I was enjoying his outburst, it seemed laughable then, his verbal and non verbal expressions, so I just watched him continue.