Where is music when children, <br />men and women are slaughtered <br />with merciless religion of hate? <br />Where is poetry when blood <br />of the innocents is spilled <br />over the barren ground of hope? <br />Where is conscience when peace <br />is buried in silence <br />by the rule of weapons <br />and the ideology <br />to exterminate <br />a group of people?<br /><br />Elizabeth Padillo Olesen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/slaughter-of-the-innocents-2/
