Invisible Children

Author's note:  This is a poem that I was inspired to write after I saw the Kony video.  If you haven't seen it...please look up Kony 2012 on youtube.  It will make you cry, I know I did.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Kony is a vile man.  He is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army In Africa.  This group captures children and forces them to become slaves or to mutilate other children.  Before they take them, they kill their family and neighbors so that have no one to turn to.  This makes them join.  Hundreds and thousands of children have been captured by this man. Make him famous.  Make these invisible children heard.  Not only hear them, listen to their cries.  I feel like we need to do something..and this poem expresses it.

Invisible children………………………………

Invisible children.

Hidden.

Isolation.

 Suffering.

Captured……….

From the life

They knew before

In the world…
They stand alone

Facing….

A choice

Of violence

Of death

Of uprising

Of mutilation

Of standing

Of falling

Of blood….

And of tears…………

Tears streaming

Down their face

War torn tears

Tearing their youth

Innocence

Ripped

From their very hands….

Don’t just fall

Don’t cover your eyes

 

Breath in.

Breath out.

 Breath in the loss

Breath in their loss

                                                                                                    Look.

Look at their faces….

See their blood.

 See other’s blood shed before them…

Reach.
 To their hands

Hear their cries

Hear their voices

See their tears

Clean the blood

From their hands…

Please…
We cannot have them fade as…

Invisible Children……..