Did It Happen Again? Poem by Ndubisi Anslem Otolokpo

Hear!
The Wailing voices
Of bereaved
sob sorrowfully for their loss.


Did it happen again!
Incessant nuke of the haramites
At the church, major cities
And market places.

In whom's pleasure
chooses our blood
As juice
Of which it pleases.

Did it happen again!
The portentous strikes
Of these faceless
Rightfully-wrong fighters,

Making us refugees in
Our own camp.
Their name is "Forbiden"
Even at the hear of "Boko"


We fear to tread
Keeping vigils with bare hands.
Did it happen again?
I wonder if it did


As we maintain no just course
Seeing our protectors nurse
The menace with glove hands
Forgetting we are all victims in disguise.