Petrified by scarecrows
Like scared petrels
Swimming out of estuaries
Onto tributaries
Fled into farm huts
To mumble
Mumbo jumbo.
Scarecrows
Mounted by scare mongers
Abound now on farmlands.
Farmers
Famished,
Filled with fright
Fled to farm
On far-flung farmlands
Where scare tactics
Of scare mongers
Arrive
In less frightening doses.
Chidi Anthony Opara
"All I want to be is me".
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