No more teachers
to infuse the minds of young belles,
only vacant memories of
books, looks and girlish ways.
Lowered eyes
watch black boots and shadows
circle their boundaries
like dogs herding sheep.
Freedom fighters with guns
haunt these unwilling infidels,
their wombs pregnant with child-fear,
their innocence felled.
Conscience abandoned.
The world undone.
Submit—die—be defiled.
Boko Haram.