Must Read: 'I SHED A TEAR' - An Emotional Poem Dedicated to the 59 Students Murdered in Yobe

I SHED A TEAR BY ELISHA SHORT

“Light out They say",

Awaiting a new dawn,

Alas!

The bandits appears with no sympathy

Silting, shooting and torching them together,

Just for draconian views to be accepted.

I shed a tear over man’s.

A darkness void less one that

Conceives all greater evils.

Then we blame the devil for such atrocities,

We are the devil ourselves

Lurking, looting and destroying.

“Tell me didn’t they plead for mercy from you Coward”.

Still it felled on dead ears

And happily triggering maiming carried out your atrocities.

I curse you and your counterparts a life so miserable

That you seek for death that it wouldn’t come.

How do you rest after such evil,

“Tell me don’t their cries haunt and taunt you”.

Or do you just ignore them.

I shed a tear over man’s,

For demons we are with an appetite for devastation.

A Poem dedicated to those students who were murdered on 24^th feb.2014.