Debora Short - Innocents in Hell

So much pain
So little hope
15 million homeless
And, all completely right-less

Images of three year old babies
Arms machete-ied off
And tiny infant’s fingers
Their only solace …

Now, only a mother’s memory
And, what of their mothers
Raped and tortured
Sentenced to no life

HIV condemns
All as perennial outcasts
Wandering hungry souls
Just who will care for them?

Some rescued young sex slaves
Receive 45 days of rehab…
And, then what...their
Sentence now cast

A lifetime of sleepless torture
One young girl ordered to place friends
Heads in a fire-pit and, view
Their eyes popping and their brains oozing…

So much pain
So little hope
15 million homeless
And, all completely right-less

Debora Short

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