Children of War

Presentation by Ken du Pisanie www.chroniclesofaragamuffin.blogspot.com

E-mail: [email protected].

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War is all some children have seenPain a fact of lifeMisery a constant

Watching love ones come and goDie before the beast they too well

knowThey think this barbarity normalGuns ... dust ... noise as usual

Scenes heartbreakingPlaying in a bombed out buildingQuivering atop the remains of

civilization.

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These precious little onesPlay sombre games of war

In the streetsAmong rubble once their home

In paddies amid dangerOn sand dunes

Rife with uncertaintyFilled with deepening despair.Will they adjust to stay alive

Their holocaust survive?

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Children sway in war's voracious wind like reeds

Their very childhood bleedsSinging songs of annihilation

malignant desolationBlowing in wavering wind like a rhymeBorn in the wrong place, at the wrong

timeDoomed wherever winds may blow to

followTheir pestilent lives hollowInconsequential! Illogical!

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O, the future's in our childrenThese precious little ones

Who know too wellThe hard edge of death

Searing pain.What will they grow up to be

When all around them is hatredUnpropitious violence?

These impostorsShould not with children dwell.

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A child's eyes are pools of wonderment

So big, So innocentSo full of hurt

Where there should be delightStagnant emptinessTheir vacant faces

Gazing with blank staresUnfathomable terrors surrounding

themHorrors abounding in their grown-up

world.

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Look deep into children's soulsAs they look back in wide-eyed

devastationTheir world falling down around them

Devastation all they know.What does their future hold?What lessons will they learn?

How can they know loveWith hatred surging around them so

strong?Will they die young

never tasting the fruits of life?

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O what terror rests upon their tiny souls

Eats at their heartsAches in their belliesTests their very being

When they see loved ones killedMother, father, brother ... gone

Watching friends die in pools of bloodTheir caretakers silenced

They see life as just survivingWithout the essence of being.

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What is their purpose?To witness the slaughterFrom atop the rubble

Of a bombed out buildingTiny nostrils clogged

With pungent gun powderThe dust of destruction?

Will they grow up but to repeatScenes they've seen

Horrors they've witnessed?

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Will their futuresPeering through barbed wire

Fence them outScreen them from the world by hunger

DesperationGrowing fear

Filled with hatredDestined revenge to wreak

Scores to pay backVengeance to atone.

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Or will the children, sick of hatred...Seek peace!

Peace?Will they ever see it's face?

Will they ever knowIt's sweet embrace?Will they ever feel

The comforting of peaceful balmHear its soothing calm

To relax in the arms of peace.

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Will children even be aliveTo watch war rumbling by

To see itTo grow up with itTo live ... to love

Make their place in it?Will children make a differenceBecome killers, or wise sagesBe leaders of men for good

Or evil?

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Will a child’s sweet life be nipped in the bud

Before life has really begunWithout ever having dreams

Much less, having dreams fulfilledNever to know tomorrow's treasures?

Will they be able to seeThrough fogbound nightmares

Beyond the haunting mist of terrors?Do children feel the swirling hatred

Or numbly take it in?

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How can children live in a placeMolten in humanity's disgrace?Here, where fear replaces love

The only thing showering down from above

Children feel not blessingsBut tears in their eyes swelling

Born in a world of hatingPain replacing tenderness

Memories made by shock and aweKilling is the law.

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Will they just be one more of the tragic lostGobbled up

Swallowed by the voracious mawOf the ogre

War's bestial carnivore...Their only childhood friend?Who surrounds their days

What toys ... what joys ... what fears?

What apprehensions fill young livesWhere childhood monsters are real?

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What if children judged usWith much to say about injusticeAbout being forced to grow up too

quickAbout daddy’s to war gone away

Horrors seen every dayTheir introduction to death

Before they even started to live?Which does a child understand more

The man preaching of moral imperative,

Or the gun in his hand?

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Do children fear the gun ... or embrace it

Do children just not comprehend it?O, I would take up the little children

If I couldGrasp tiny hands in mineClutch them to my breast

Protect themShield them from this world of harms

Stem hurtful tearsKiss tear-streaked cheeks.

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I would hug those who cruel warshackle

Those whose terrible suffering too often

War's cruel quest ignores.I would love them ... comfort them

Show them a better place...O, that I could carry them to safetyIlluminate that great and sacred place

Where children live happyFulfilled lives

In a golden palace...

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But where, God? Where?Open up your arms, God

Here they come...Children caught in tempest and

whirlwindAnguished in a swirl of hate

Running from real life bogeymenNo hope for them in this war

With no place for themHate wreaking violence all around them

Killing all they love ... forever!

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I wonder if baby Jesus were born in time of war

Would he understand?Would the plight of the children

Bring tears to His eyes?Would he live long enough

To plant the hope of the world?Could he save man

From those embitteredWill He show the better way

Share His love for us all ... teach us to forgive?

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Poetry - “Children of War”by Gary Jacobson © February 2006

All those brave journalists who captured these tragic images so that

we might know…

Slide Presentation: Ken du Pisanie

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