Multiply

The kids in the bus mentioned in the first line were
released sometime after I posted this poem, unharmed.

Why would anybody snatch a school bus?

Unless the architects are psychos, of course.

Why go so far to hurt a baby’s smile

In a time the nation ought to unite?

But we have survived worse things.

And this setback will only make us multiply.

Yes, we will make it thro this,

And the world will see that still we rise.

Akpan