So much pain <br />So little hope <br />15 million homeless <br />And, all completely right-less <br /> <br />Images of three year old babies <br />Arms machete-ied off <br />And tiny infant’s fingers <br />Their only solace … <br /> <br />Now, only a mother’s memory <br />And, what of their mothers <br />Raped and tortured <br />Sentenced to no life <br /> <br />HIV condemns <br />All as perennial outcasts <br />Wandering hungry souls <br />Just who will care for them? <br /> <br />Some rescued young sex slaves <br />Receive 45 days of rehab… <br />And, then what...their <br />Sentence now cast <br /> <br />A lifetime of sleepless torture <br />One young girl ordered to place friends <br />Heads in a fire-pit and, view <br />Their eyes popping and their brains oozing… <br /> <br />So much pain <br />So little hope <br />15 million homeless <br />And, all completely right-less<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/innocents-in-hell/
