Shame on us No… Not them, Us The living, The scrolling, The forwarding The forgetting The fence-sitters The excuse-makers Shame on us… A nation watches And calls it survival A child disappears And we call it politics A teacher is murdered And we call it security challenges Forty-two children Not statistics Not hashtags Children, With milk teeth Tiny uniforms, Dreaming of tomorrow Dreaming of becoming Doctors Teachers Leaders And what did Nigeria give them Captivity Say their names Say their names Say their names Not because they are famous But because they are human Their only crime Was showing up To learn To teach To hope A mother waits A father paces A village prays A nation shrugs And somewhere in the dark Men with guns Negotiate prices For human lives...