MAIDUGURI FLOOD: Young Poetess Writes Poem On Resilience of Maiduguri People

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A young aspiring poetess in Maiduguri, Borno State capital has written a poem expressing the resilience of the people of the state in the midst of adversity.

The poetess, Zainab Abba Sanusi, is a student of Borno State University, who hailed from the state.

In the poem, she described how people of the state have resisted many calamities both in the past and present.

While encouraging the people to resist the current flood disaster that is sweeping across the city, the talented poetess also recalled several adversities that befallen the city for several years.

She noted that challenges are a test from God and most be accepted and hope for relief.

See except of the poem below:

My home. By Xaynab

Yerwa, my home, a home of peace
A state, a city, that has faced release
From calamities, insurgency, and what-not
Yet rises from the ashes, strong and resilient

Mothers’ cries echo through the air
As homes, memories, are lost, and beyond repair
A father watches, helpless and in pain
As his family, home, and children are swept away, like grains of sand

The streets we ran, played, and laughed
Now swim away, like tears, in the aftermath
But still, we hold on to faith and hope
A test from Allah, a night of terror we must face.

Trauma and pain, we cannot deny
But resilience and hope, are the only options to survive.
For Yerwa, our home, will rise again
Stronger, greater, like the morning sun’s rays.
From the ashes, just like Phoenix, born of pain

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