Poetry

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By

Eddie Awusi

Bride Of Terrorism

Far removed from the society of man,

She tucked herself behind a dank and dingy night,

Behind the sound of eager muezzin;

Clad in mascara

And a black disenchanted chador;

a broken frame,

Governed by fears and extremism.

She loves her groom but hates the war.

Lumps her weak and slumped breast

Into the mouth of her infant baby,

that begs a question of the world.

Always led through monstrous indignity

Of sexual molestation and violation:

Tortured into compliance and complacence,

Fled from embattled cities into captivity,

This bearer of a caliphate’s tales.

What more cruel torture, barbaric killing,

Cursed overture, did her sight grip?

Dovetailing into the night,

Prayer book in arms.

Eddie Awusi

Eddie Awusi is a Nigerian writer of Isoko extraction. He graduated from the prestigious Delta state university, Abraka in 2007, where, he got a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literature. He believes in the universality of Arts and global citizenship of the creative and Imaginative artist.