It is sad to see us so comfy and complacent in our shells,
While the world around us slowly burns to hell,
It is sad to see many lives lost every day, in countries far and away,
In an age where death and genocide are mere numbers on the screen,
What do we care? We just simply shrug and walk away…….
Do we really understand the pains and horrors of war?
Can we truly feel the loss of all that had stood before?
Roads and playgrounds, once filled with sounds of joy and laughter,
Are now fields of flowing red, destruction and terror,
But what does a child’s pleading cries for help mean,
His arms raised towards the heavens, amidst the chaos and the screams,
Do we really care? We are all too busy in our ‘social’ screens…..
Clear blue skies that once were in the past,
Are now laden with rockets and jets soaring fast,
Machines guns rattle, the streets bustle with men and metal,
The shells make them run for cover,
The bullets take them down in twos and threes,
Such being the acts of carnage and violence, in a land that was once free,
But what does this all mean for the rest of the world, to you and to me?
Do we really care? We are just relieved that we are spared free…..
We simply fail to care, we just watch and stare,
See a nation tear itself apart, whole and square,
Our leaders may argue with each other,
Each threatening the other what to do,
While the citizens of the land once free,
Continue to suffer through and through,
Shells and rockets, tears and anguish, misery and sorrow,
For the glorious land and its proud people, such has the way of life become,
In the days that were lived past, and the days that are yet to come,
Are we all truly blind not to see,
A nation torn apart and its people on their knees?
Have we all turned deaf not to hear,
Their cries and pleas, their screams, and their fears?
Have we all stooped so low, in the depths of apathy?
Have we all become so cold, not to show sympathy?
But why should we care? There is nothing in it for you and me….
Why should we really care, we will just agree to disagree….
(Dedicated to the brave people of Syria…)
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