Remember The Rohingya Poem by Ragy Sandid

Myanmar
An island of no consequence
Except when you hear
The blood of the innocence

People defenceless
Against an army of ruthlessness
Villages burned
Without need for even pretence

Omnipresence
Of a ruling dictatorship
That has the reasons
Of a sailor's nip

And dip
Their hands into blood
Of a fellow human
And blame it on any flood

Then trod
Like children and claim foul
Because cleansing
Demands a nightly prowl

And a scowl
Then down comes the iron hand
A fist of might to smite
Those who lived one day on the land

Understand
The roots they have to uproot
Then they shoot
What's left of the offshoot

Remember
The call of Charles de Gaulle
Leaders scold
Whoever had a role

Or dare recall
The London party
Where vice casually killed innocence
And force fumed every smarty

And tore the heart
Of everyone there is
And raised only one flag
Pain is a domain to graze

So raise
Whatever is left of humanity
These are humans in pain
Pain made of human insanity

Profanity
Fails to raise the level of the words
You see with eyes in the sky
You wonder and ask why

But you don't cry
People die, die, die
Your neighbour of nine
Suffers at a hand like yours and mine

Show a sign
Link to the divine
To err is human
To kill with intent
Is beyond resigned