Anonymous
Love and sunlight
bundled together, add some
food and water and you
have a person full of smiles
and thoughts, more things
to say than you can imagine
all waiting inside to be
let out, things that could
change the world or at least
bring a light to someone else's face--
and then with one violent act
systematic, merciless act of hate
and greed and unthinking brutality
someone wipes out that voice
all that sunshine all those days
someone decides that no one matters
that no one has a right to live
that it's better, more convenient,
or just collateral damage
if you end up in a hole
with your eyes closed
and all your thoughts left unsaid.
bundled together, add some
food and water and you
have a person full of smiles
and thoughts, more things
to say than you can imagine
all waiting inside to be
let out, things that could
change the world or at least
bring a light to someone else's face--
and then with one violent act
systematic, merciless act of hate
and greed and unthinking brutality
someone wipes out that voice
all that sunshine all those days
someone decides that no one matters
that no one has a right to live
that it's better, more convenient,
or just collateral damage
if you end up in a hole
with your eyes closed
and all your thoughts left unsaid.
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The UN declared "Never Again," after the Holocaust, but since then there have been Genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and now, Darfur. This piece is part of an anti Genocide, anti ignorance project called Open Eyes. To learn more and contribute, visit www.openeyesforgenocide.blogspot.com
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