4th May

We’re playing hide and seek so don’t make a sound,
Close your eyes, stay put or we’ll be found.
I said to my son as I held him tight,
Ready to face the consequences with all my might.

As I sat in the corner of a stranger’s house,
I look around and I saw my spouse.
Our 8 months old wrapped in her arm,
I prayed to God to protect them from harm.

The evening was unlike any other.
Everyone out for blood for every other
Besides their own kith and kin
Before they kill they’d peel our skin.

Footsteps did approach the front gate,
Our lives were in the hands of fate.
Then a voice lashed out, “Are there any Kukis?”
“No” she cried and locked the door with keys.

A sigh of relief, a long breath I drew,
My heart still pounding as it grew,
There might be hope after all,
Tonight our heads might just not roll.

All nestled in Mary Kom’s Hall,
The only safe haven for us all.
The ever so Faithful intervened that night,
Only by His grace we could leave all right.

If I was to tell you my story of pain,
Poetry wouldn’t do justice; just vain,
Neither a movie, a book or a song,
A lifetime I got no matter how long.