Fay Slimm - Suffer The Children.

Surrounded by scenes of suffering
Children are caught, despicably,
As terror and hate fly between
Them and their lives.

Terrified girl dies. Heart attack
Takes her, as bomb wrecks her home.
She was fourteen and alone. Now back
Her family mourns.

Three innocents play in the street.
Aged eight to ten, inoperably
Injured, they lie, one minus his feet.
No-one survives.

Shame on the uncaring hard hearts
Who, hearing no pleas, will then murder
Even a child. Missiles can part
No bad from the good.

Need we ask how we feel when guns
Tanks and bombs scream death to the young?

Fay Slimm

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