And Now One Is Found
The Nigerian schoolgirls
(hashtag)BringBackOurGirls
Remember
How would we
Understand two hundred
Seventy
How would such a number
Be taken without our
Noticing
In what kind of truck
And to what place all
Hidden
In our neighborhood-filled
Planet-parts, this is
Hard
From our earthen places
We cannot count
How
But in part we can’t believe
Not because it didn’t
Happen
Tragically, criminally,
Numerically—what transpired
Transpired
And with our questions and
New trepidations here is her
Body
Now we have her with
Child and husband on the fringes
Found
We can understand, now
Perhaps, a new story of
One
clcouch123 
May 19, 2016 at 8:20 pm
I didn’t see the recent updates on this. But it was very horrible, how so many young women could be taken and married off. The girl they found was she alive?
May 19, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Yes, the news is new on this. One of the girls found kind of near a community. A man was with her and a child. She said the man is her husband and the child is hers (theirs). We’ll see what happens next. I didn’t know the president of Nigeria had to step down over failure in rescuing the kidnapped schoolgirls.
May 19, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Gripping and heart-wrenching. Well done.
May 19, 2016 at 10:42 pm
Thank you for the descriptors in your compliment. They mean a lot. I hope that more of those kidnapped might somehow emerge.
May 19, 2016 at 11:23 pm
Oh yes, I’m stepping up my prayers now–this is a hideous situation.
May 20, 2016 at 1:28 am
Just read the news story… Wow! I was beginning to wonder whether we’d ever see any of those girls alive. Heart wrenching!
May 21, 2016 at 5:07 pm
Yes, it’s a frightening situation. Maybe good news will be one of the results, since the horror happened, anyway.
May 20, 2016 at 6:48 am
Wow, I love reading your poetry and your realistic depiction of what is happening.
I hope you are resting well my friend.
Dajena 🙂
May 21, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Thank you, Dajena. Actually, I slept in this morning, which was good. As for rest in other ways, well, I’m job-hunting, which is always taxing. Necessary, though, of course.
May 22, 2016 at 9:25 am
The people who did this must be in a lot of pain and hatred… I will never understand it.
I enjoy reading your take on the latest events… You bring new perspectives.
May 23, 2016 at 11:54 pm
Thanks, Annie. I know we can’t help but be moved by what happens in the world. Your insight into pain and hatred rings true. Thanks for that. Since we can never imagine doing such things ourselves, I guess there will always be a lack of understanding. A good lacking, I’d think.
May 23, 2016 at 5:55 am
you beautifully the mysteries of this horrible event and always your words make us care, your words move us.
May 23, 2016 at 11:57 pm
Care and move? I would not have thought this of my verse. I am moved by what you say. Thank you ever so much, Rosema.
May 24, 2016 at 1:39 am
oh that is how your words affect me. 🙂 you are most welcome!