Remembering Those in Need

As you sit at your table on Thanksgiving Day

Voraciously gorging yourself on your feast,

Remember those who are suffering

In a proxy war in the Middle East.

 

The poor Yemenis have died by the thousands.

Many are on the brink of starvation.

Fourteen million, some people say,

Experience serious deprivation.

 

Blockades limit badly needed

Medical supplies and food.

It's a humanitarian crisis

Of unspeakable magnitude.

 

Warring ideologies place

Innocent people in between.

Yes, people are still committing

Atrocities in twenty eighteen!

 

A hospital hit by Saudi bombs…

A school bus blown to bits…

How many more will die before

Responsible parties call it quits?

 

Cholera is pervasive, and drugs

Cannot get to the people who need them.

Babies are dying because their mothers

Cannot produce the milk to feed them.

 

As of now our president

Would rather keep an open door

To weapons sales to Saudis instead

Of trying to stop the ghastly war.

 

Don't just send your thoughts to Yemen;

Let your thoughts turn into actions,

Lest your sincere hopes for peace

End up being worthless abstractions.

 

-by Bob B (11-22-18)