Shamal Darfur (North Darfur)
Gharb Darfur (West Darfur)
Janub Darfur (South Darfur)
And right now a genocide is taking place there.
Please follow me and watch that woman bent,
as willows bend, face hidden in her hand.
A picture of despair, to say the least.
That other one is hiding in her tent.
She was tortured and raped, here on the sand.
The Devil on Horseback did it. A beast.
For her it was a shame. For him -- a feast.
Now she’s ostracized. Custom of this land.
These orphaned children sit. They never play.
They seem to be so scared. They sit and they
just stare at nothing. They look so spent …
Their future? Who knows? Let’s hope -- not all gray
This boy is maimed. His sister’s womb is rent.
The men do battle. They kill. The children pay.
as willows bend, face hidden in her hand.
A picture of despair, to say the least.
That other one is hiding in her tent.
She was tortured and raped, here on the sand.
The Devil on Horseback did it. A beast.
For her it was a shame. For him -- a feast.
Now she’s ostracized. Custom of this land.
These orphaned children sit. They never play.
They seem to be so scared. They sit and they
just stare at nothing. They look so spent …
Their future? Who knows? Let’s hope -- not all gray
This boy is maimed. His sister’s womb is rent.
The men do battle. They kill. The children pay.
A Child's Epitaph
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Black Climate of Change
by Zyskandar Jaimot
gone into giant swirling whirlwinds of khamseens
gone into vicious sprawling outbursts of tribal revenge
mothers, babes all bundled together in refuge
mothers calling, praying to strange foreign deities for succor
their voices unheeded in all the world
their DNA gone – vanished amid waves of bloody sand
never replaced – never thought of – never considered
their DNA unimportant
their DNA inconsequential
their essence gone
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