The Voice Of The Masses -By Hauwa Yakubu

Gun shots here and there

Bullets flying here and there

Dead bodies lying around all over the place

A cry for help

A need for protection

A pleased to stop the killing

Everywhere houses are decorated with blood and bullet holes like ornamental plants all around the houses.

No one is shown mercy

Children, women, men

All left in the mercy of bandits

Who on earth will come to their rescue

Who will put an end to the killing

where are the leaders?

Oh!

They are on TV making a speech, telling the poor masses that everything is under control.

What! how is everything under control?

People are being killed like domestic fowl

As if they have no worth

As if they were trash

Millions are left out on the street

Many wipe for the lost beloved

Many are displaced

Many are sent to an early grave

Many are fighting for their lives in the hospitals

Where is our feelings?

Aren’t we humans?

Don’t we care?

It’s time we fight for the Internally Displaced Persons

It’s time we open up our store room and put food on their empty plates

it’s time we take out that clothing we have no need of and cloth someone

it’s time we become humans

it’s time the killing stops

it’s time we live together in peace

let our leaders stand for what is right

Let us serve peace and love,and wash off the dishes of killing and terrorism.

Hauwa Yakubu wrote from Mass Communication Department, Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi, Bauchi state