http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14084670

and everything else that keeps streaming in to the news and that we do not hear of, but that happens around the world and in our neighbourhoods




Helpless

How can I sleep?
when they must wander onwards

How can I eat and throw my food away?
when they need food for the children they are forced to leave behind in the dusty roads

How can I weep?
when their tears are real, their burdens beyond my imagination

How can I speak?
when the world screams

How can I find words?
when I know they cannot help those women raped
those children starving
those men stripped of their dignity
my fellow human beings

The world bleeds
and I am powerless to help




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Written on 2011-08-08 at 11:18

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