#BringBackOurGirls: Does Anyone Hear The Missing Girls' Cries?

But for the over 200 girls, kidnapped from the cradle where they sought knowledge and allegedly sold for a pittance to terrorists, today is just one more day in captivity.

They can only weep, pray and hope for a deliverance that seems to be impossible to get. But, is anyone listening?

As we keep faith with hope and pray that our sisters, daughters and future mothers are rescued, I share with you this touching poem by a concerned Nigerian Nonye J. Chidolue (@trendyjulia).

WHO HEARS?

Their eyes are sore with misery

Voices are thorn from screaming

Hearts are pounding in great fury

The skies hang up silent and weary

Enslaved by the hungry ravens

Over two hundred blameless souls

Before the jaws of death they raise their hopes

That they may return safely to their homes

Awake all night their tears trudge

Awake all day sniffing in damp shroud

Like a churchyard lay the lonely town of chibok

The big government remain yet unperturbed

In darkness once again another story is told

Of the innocent whose blood is squashed

Slayed and cooked up in galled blood

And not a whisper could be heard!

But there was a country?

A nation bound in freedom, peace and unity

I know a country turned community

Of chaos and blood, of fear and frailty

Are not wars for the living?

Never was it for the dead a nation’s building

Are not voices for the living?

But when they cry out, who really does hear?

Dedicated to the missing Chibok girls, their aggrieved families and the entire loss of innocent lives in Nigeria. The bloodshed is alarming! The chaos keeps multiplying day by day. What is the government doing? Who will bring back our light? Who will bring back our smiles? The country is going insane!

Originally published on THE PEREGRINE'S WRITING CAFE.

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