Five years ago, over 200 girls were kidnapped
in North-East Nigeria, 160 of them were returned
all mothers and pregnant

Bring back our girls
and only their shadows were brought back
without a soul
wretchedly pregnant with darkness

our sweet little girls stolen in pampers
returned to us like sacks of finished goods
of what excluded them more from us

what can we do with them now?
how can someone ask this question?
just because our stolen girls
are now mothers of innocent terrorists
we saw destruction hidden in their breasts
a silent importance ground
reduced to heavenwards smoke
they are the girls we loaned tears
to lie and cry for them to be brought back

the stolen chibok girls cannot
suddenly become relics of a destroyed history
the unexploded explosion
in their desert-clouded eyes
are the bombs that may not harm us
if we do not return the love lost in our mind
but shall destroy what we love the most

in fact, do you know a terrorist?
the answer is the god you worship daily
as a direction to heaven, depicted
in a holy book's skeleton
founded on poetic rhymes


Originally published by Umar Yogiza Jr on ArtHut via http://arthut.com.ng/viewBlog?hid=1i13bg3h6ini9ng85r3ts0&data=insight

Nice