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Ora et labora* Between Miracle and Mirage Don’t bury God In your avalanche of prayers The windows of heaven are rattling From the litany of your frantic supplications “Ora et
Ora et labora* Between Miracle and Mirage
Don't bury God
In your avalanche of prayers
The windows of heaven are rattling
From the litany of your frantic supplications
“Ora et labora”,
Proclaims the wise and valuable counsel
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But in Naijaland they pray and pray and prey
While our brains decline and factories fail
When the National Power grid collapses
And darkness shrouds the country
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Like a hapless corpse, we fall on our prayerful knees
Begging God to send down the light
When a robber-baron roars to power
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Through mass slaughter and rigged polls
Prayer warriors claim it wouldn't have happened
If God had not so divined
And so, prayer houses are full
While schools run empty and hunger
Takes a seat in many homes, even as Master Preyers
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Pollute the skies with their glittering jete
Welcome to Miracle Land, oh ye faithful flocks
Whose “portions” have been divinely procured
March prayerfully back home now and wait for that bank alert
Announcing the advent of your miracle millions
Pray and Work
