Bullets

For the primary school kids who lost their 

lives in a 2015 Boko Haram attack at Potiskum

I was there when they cut that bullet

In the size of a missile midget

I was there when they rammed cartridge

And aimed as if at a partridge

I was there down at Potiskum

When they tried to make POTUS scum

I was there when they pulled the triggers

But my hands were lead like timbers.

Akpan