Mummy, they’re killing children again, a poem by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA #war #poetry #poem
Mummy, they’re killing children again Mummy, they’re killing children again I saw blood on TV this morning over coffee brown swishing fluids, shit and limbs and blood the new milk for breakfast Mummy, they’re killing children again I saw men Big Strong Powerful men camouflaged in decency a coverup so sinful they closed their eyes as the guns took fire into the tiniest of beating hearts Mummy, they’re killing children again I saw homes razed to unsafe grounds where the rats now know they are no longer the vermin of the earth’s war tapestries hung so proud on the walls of the victors Mummy, they’re killing children again I saw mothers wailing their pain so deep it ejected their wombs, laid bare their eggs like a feast for the soldiers of hate Mummy, they’re killing children again when will they come to take us to rape us deny us a life once promised by a God we can no longer find a God who does not see us a God who does not...