Eyes:those tragic eyes

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Eyes: those tragic eyes.

 

It was her eyes, those tragic eyes

The saddest eyes I ever saw.

That made me start to realise.

The price that children pay for war.

 

Those eyes had seen brutalities

 no innocent should ever see

She haunted still by memories

 from which I fear she can’t break free.

 

I look into her eyes and see

that she expects nothing from me.

She has no hope that there might be

  an ending to her misery.

 

Although I know I’m not to blame

 I still feel guilty all the same.

 

Though we protest our innocence

 in our attempts to rationalise.

 What can we say in self defence.

 That is not based on blatant lies.

 

It makes me frankly furious

 that innocents should suffer so

The guilt belongs to all of us.

We can’t pretend we did not know

 

That we should learn from history

 instead of choosing to ignore

Because we do not want to see.

There are no winners in a war.

 

I can’t forget those empty eyes

 They’ll haunt me ‘til the day I die.

 

Monday, 08 November 2010

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Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

Bravo a voice in the wind
!00 id give you a thousand if i could

[Bubo]

It makes me frankly furious
that innocents should suffer so
The guilt belongs to all of us.
We can’t pretend we did not know


Indeed it is the innocents that suffer the greatest, and the guilt does belong to us.........what a powerful piece, with deep sadness that so many children are damaged through war.