Death in Yemen

As the wind blows across the fiery desert,

The desperate people of Yemen sigh.

How many more will suffer today?

How many more children will cry?

A Saudi-led coalition

Strikes with a heartless disregard,

Leaving behind misery--

Death and destruction its calling card.

 

Choking the poor country, the Saudis

Organized a major blockade,

Cutting off vital medicine,

Food, and water, and stopping all trade.

Cluster bombs have fallen on cities.

Thousands of innocent people have died.

Hospitals and schools have been hit.

How can such horror be justified?

 

Millions of people risk starvation

If all the bombing does not end.

The Saudis hunger for more and more weapons,

And they have billions of dollars to spend.

A bomb made by Lockheed Martin

Hit a Yemeni school bus

Killing fifty-one people, and hurting

Many more, thanks to us.

 

A U.S. bomb hit funeral mourners;

One destroyed a marketplace.

That our support causes such

Atrocities is a disgrace.

The people suffer from cholera--

Something that is hard to avoid

When a country's sanitation

Facilities are being destroyed.

 

A massive humanitarian crisis

Plagues the country despite appeals

To end the conflict by caring nations,

While major players dig in their heels.

Sunni-Shiite conflicts continue

With innocent citizens caught in between.

Callous leaders turn their heads,

Afraid to speak up or intervene.

 

-by Bob B (10-17-18)