The Chibok Girls Poem by Tony Adah

Dear Chibok girls
I now believe your story
With a pinch of salt
And I am cleaning the tears
From my eyes
So clear now as the cloud is gone
Of the flecks that covered my eyes.

A Chibok escapee came
Pregnant with the tale
Of a structured abduction
Where those pointing accusing fingers
To the insurgents visit the camp
With milk and honey and bottled water
While the terrorist fighters drink on dews.

I believe the escapee's story
And I am wiping tears from my eyes
Withdrawing the sympathy
I once lavished on the abducted girls
Now that the scales have fallen down from my eyes
Now that she said if you put all the big men of my country
In the television she can recognize
Those who used to visit the camp.
I am wiping tears from my eyes
Believing the abduction to be a hoarse
And I do not want to be involved
In the polemics of the Chibok abduction.