ODE: "SCARS" BY SAVANNAH INKS

Invisible tattoos etched on dark souls,

Unceded burdens of war-torn mothers

Gagging acrid wails of a cruel fate,

Captives forced to conceive under duress 

Beyond the void,flat gray eyes,

Filter wafts from smouldering ruins

Where litigating,charred corpses askew,

Query voids of apathetic space

The cherished home she lost in time,

Swapped for sapping yoke in eerie forests

From aromatic dormitories to foul barracks,

An innocence hijacked by drooling hyenas

Scarred,worn bodies are flashed in shame,

Torn like the cursed grim,serene battlefields

Corrupted minds,a maze forever breached,

Trapped in minds of tested unsavory pasts

Scars of war burrow deep and wide,

Nagging reminders of pain long throttled

Emotional toll heavy hearts to bear,

Torrid lifetimes with no escape to share

Suffer,cursed children of violent acts,

Constant reminders of the trauma exact

Beaming smiles,a bittersweet,painful sight,

Blending joy and grief on dead of night

Weighty gazes mirror a mother's anguish,

Nagging reminders of stinging scars

Lost in worlds of numbed emotions,

Trapped in crisis of queried identity

Yet,bold like phoenixes,they rise,

Surmounting from cold,impotent ashes

To glowing embers through dark night,

Healing to shine with all their might.

J.M. @ SAVANNAH INKS

- Zimbabwe 

 2024

The poet persona laments the pains which the Chibok girls go through; with also admitting that these involved girls are willing to rise after the 

shocking situations which they have passed through.