Indifference

There is deep pain
in my heart
An agony of millions
children too weak
to cry
Of generations lost in
the indifference of
an affluent world
A legion of lost souls dying
on the plains of a
dry indifferent land
Orphans of a war, of
all holy wars
To freedom's path they
fought and killed
For religion, ideology . . .
And in their blood
the children stood
Flowed the last hope of
a lost tribe of innocents
Wandering aimlessly
over the parched,
exhausted
land,
searching
But not finding . . .
anything except death
And the legions
of the lost
children
keep marching
Generation after generation . . .
While freedom fights
for. . .
There is sadness
in my heart
In the cries of the
dying children
on the plains
of mankind's
indifference

Copyright ©
December 6, 1998
Michael David Coffey