SAmbiSA

folks from the forest in the desert: Sambisa
rovers with tortuous trails in white sands: Sambisa
terrible like the great Leviathan: Sambisa
like fog they pall the villagers: Sambisa!
They say, Sambisa reaches unto Central Africa,
or so we heard
Sambisa traipses the heat of Somalia
ever to traduce her tranquil fragile 
she is in the heart of Kenya as the fevour of Fatwa: euthanasia.
Sambisa is Nigeria's nightmare, mercurial, octopoid
the spectre that haunts the big, black void.
 How fortuitous, tell me brother?
How Sambisa lights on us in such a great number
stealthy, a snake, and like a drive of locust
to lick up the green amongst us each day,
for music made by metals compelled
corporeal to contort in dans macabre vehicles, rifles...
trademarks, in their wake left us tumuli, tumult, wail.