LETTER FROM A YOBE GIRL

Where am i , what am i doing here, i thought i had a home, where are my parents, who are these people, could this be hell?..with TEARS flowing down my cheeks and sorrow in my heart, i write u this.

I come from a once peaceful nation, we are known to be really happy people but now all we see is pain, insecurity and sorrow. We were green (agriculture) and peaceful, so i heard.

I write you from nowhere but with great hopes that my tears would carry these sorrowful words to the shores of your heart. I don't know these people, i feel dead. I feel like a woman now, i thought i was a girl the other day?..there are too many things happening around me but i cant see it neither can i speak out. What if i scream, would they hurt me?. I want to know.

These voices i hear, they are scary, even scarier than my dads yelling. What if i see my beautiful mum no more, i miss her already..i know she would be worried. Please console her for me. These days i wake up dreaming. If this was a movie i would have been saved by now. Wait!!!!!..I hear sad voices, they are always crying like me, they wish they could leave here too, they need help just like me. Where are our warriors, the selected men in camouflage that fought bravely in Liberia, the proud soldiers, that hold our walls, are they afraid too or our GCFR is yet to send them our way?..what is happening?..i want to know