Lets Help Poem by David Chishimba

Lets Help



My condolences to the families of the victims of Haiti calamities,
My condolences to the families of the victims of the Rwandan genocide..
My condolences to the families of the victims of the Middle East wars..
My condolences to the families of the victims of the holocaust..
My condolences to the victims of apartheid..
My condolences to the victims of xenophobia in South Africa and other countries..
My condolences to the families of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre..

Wars or natural catastrophies are never a good portion for anyone to endure,
Others are suffering because of seemingly peaceful ideals of men,
While others suffer because of deliberate malign ideals of self centred and greedy men fighting for useless power or superiority.

The haunting screams of dying women and children..
The hopelessness of the hearts of men captured in war..
A starving child writing in the sand, not naive to the inevitable feeling of despair stalking and omnipresent.
Medical centers, everyone in pain, limbless, one eyed or an organ short, teeth clinched in muffled groans of pain.
The present is horrifying and history is ugly..

But the deed is done, we cannot cry over spilt milk,
All the the women and children in affected regions, in refugee camps and orphanage centres..
But wherever there is life, there is hope..
We can do something no matter how far we are..
We can help..
For if good men do nothing, its evil enough for them to be condemned too..

I beseech thee, let us give/donate and help..
Give whatever you can, whenever you can and however you can..
Give not because you have enough to spare,
Give because you can still survive with what you can remain with.
In the words - not of a pessimist, an alarmist or prophet of doom but that of a realist, this can also happen to you..
What follows is up to you..I rest my case..

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