Heart filled with hurt which increases and grows
What they do to the voiceless this child knows
Sent here to protect soldiers with big egos
Of these men and pain this child knows
Come here to serve instead turmoil follows
The sickness of human nature this child knows
That one promises food laughing with his fellows
A full stomach won’t stop the ache this child knows
Viciously abused as if something she owes
Her life has forever been altered this child knows
Not a soul to save her when her blood flows
There will be no-one to turn to this child knows
Swaggering like earth owners and heroes
Nothing will happen to them this child knows
She wishes to fly far away from her woes
Nothing will ever change this child knows
For UN spokesman Nick Birnback to say that it “was impossible to ensure “zero incidents” within an organisation that has up to 200,000 personnel serving around the world” is a just a load of old cobblers.
This abuse of human rights is happening because the survivors are “orphans, children separated from their parents and families, and children in families dependent on humanitarian assistance”, according to the report by Save the Children (.pdf file) . In other words, voiceless people.
The very people that organisations such as the UN and Save the Children are meant to be supporting and caring for.
The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, “Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table”. How true.
