#BringBackOurGirls: 'BringBackOurGirls' by Arinze Nwafor

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

What's the update?

I mean about the girls

The girls from Chibok

Stolen from their school

Yes, you now remember

We've waited in plastic chairs

Scattered like stars on the square

Struggling to be their light

Even as the light flickers and wane

We still raise our thinning voices.

Is Sambisa still their cage

Or has it moved?

I thought they had drones and satellites,

Spies that see through trees and men

Did you ask them where the girls are?

Did they eat this morning,

Bathe and learn their ABC?

Do they know that we tweet #BBOG,

That our timelines clog for them?

They said it's day #130

Really, that's annoying

I could throw tantrums and

Drop the F word on you

I guess that's what I'll do

Sanity seems to lack a place right here

So "Hey!!!!

Get the hell in there

And fucking #BringBackOurGirls"!

Arinze Nwafor writes from Enugu, Nigeria.
@ArinzeNwafor8

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