Enraged

 

My heart breaks

as tears roll down my cheeks

My equilibrium is disturbed

as my emtions are raw

I am inconsolable

Humanity is enigmatic

it is almost intolerable

 

Artillery targets a town

shells fall on hospitals and schools

Many are killed or wounded

Little Karim Abdel Rahman

was two months old

Shrapnel is embedded in his skull

he has lost his left eye

The perpetrators are

Bashir Assad and Vladimir Putin

I am enraged

 

The same dictator has

gassed his own people 

using the sarin nerve agent

I am enraged

 

Tens of thousands

of Muslims have fled Burma

as ethnic cleansing burns their homes

they also burn babies

rape women and shoot the men

A military dictatorship

is completely responsible

I am enraged

 

Thousands die of

malnutrition, cholera and diptheria

in the Yemen

Saudi Arabian planes

bomb them every day

Iran is also complicit in this 

horrendous atrocity.

The sick have no food or medicine

I am enraged

 

Palestinians are demeaned 

as their homes are bulldozed

their olive trees burned

to make way for Israeli Settlements

thousands are politicial prisoners

America uses its power with impunity

I am enraged

 

No one is ever held to account

as the UN plays games 

with the veto

I am enraged

 

All this continues as I write

I am enraged

 

The world watches aghast

but no one does anything

I am enraged