Dear UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, May the UN find the missing girls of Abuja

Dear UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,

May the UN find the missing girls of Abuja 

 A Prayer for the Girls of Abuja

 A prayer bursts through my brain

Cutting through stars

Piercing clouds and sunrise

Chopping rainbows into pieces

Kaleidoscopic pain of young girls

Two scrambling in bushes

Of Abuja

Hiding among limbs and brambles

Now damp with tears

Hiding as the truck

They escaped

Rambles by

Full of young girls’ dreams

A burned school

Burning hate

Blinding the eyes

Of young girls

Crowded in a truck

Now damp with tears

Trucks scream by

One hundred twenty-nine

Young girls

Girded only

With pieces

Of rainbow

(April 17, in Abuja, Nigeria, Boko Haram, whose name means, “Western education is forbidden”, set off a bomb on the outskirts of Abujaba which killed 75 people, then abducted 129 girls, ages 15=18.  The girls remain captive)

Sincerely,

Karen Melander-Magoon