Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Remember the Children

 

Remember the Children

Remember the children

crushed and obliterated

under the weight of 2000 pound bombs

screaming from the sky

dispatched by uncaring machines of death.

 

Remember the children of

Israel and

Somalia

Yemen

the Sudan

Nicaragua

Honduras

victimized by

insidious bigotry,

religious differences that

seem so oblivious

to the suffering they engender.

 

Remember the children of the present

and the future

who live in a world

that offers no relief,

no respite

from the cruelty of their captors,

from endless punishment

over which they have no control.

 

Remember the children

suffering needlessly

for no good reason.

 

Remember the children

denied the capacity to thrive and grow

for they are our lost treasures

consumed by the raw power of hate.

 

Remember the children for

they hold in their feeble hands the

ultimate fate of humanity.

 

Remember the children

to forget is to

consign ourselves to an abysmal future

devoid of compassion and love

leaving us with an uncaring and brutal world.

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