A Child Cries

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A watering hole dries up

     and the milk cow dies

          Hungry, a child cries

On battles rage as the village

     burns ‘neath blue skies

          Bloodied, a child cries

A mother, taken, weeps

     from beaten, swollen eyes

          Frightened, a child cries

Hatred grows, terror is loosed

     Humanity lost as the arrow files

          Orphaned, a child cries

A child grows with no hope

     eating only hatred’s lies

          Broken, a child cries

Hatred puts a gun in a child’s hands

     While the world cries

          And the child dies

by D. Denise Dianaty 

© 20 Nov 2015

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Reviews

[Davidgeo]

It's well written, nothing original but still a good worthwhile read. I take this meaning - It's not hatred itself, it is the circumstances that contain it and then release it that ruins lives. Hatred is an emotion not devoid of purpose, but when that's all their is it becomes the driving force behind that person/culture/ideology's actions then horror and injustice spreads like a virus. Ignorance and narrow minded views perpetuate inadequate or sometimes even exacerbating solutions.

Even if that was not your meaning, it's what I got, I'm happy with it, and your words are responsible for that. Well done.

[MomzillaNC]

That was precisely my meaning. Thank you for your erudite understanding.

[hardeep sabharwal]

a simple and powerful work, a writing with a purpose, profound work

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you.

[Jessi]

Wow. Just wow...What can be said? This...is what writing all about. Filled with purpose and awareness, capturing truth...and profoundly putting it in black and white. Such a message, such a beautiful way of writing it.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you for such effusive praise. I’m truly honored. I believe: If I’m given a voice or an opportunity to work and/or speak for peace and social justice, then… How can I not?

[Tate Morgan]

hi dear it is sad what man is capable of so kind so cruel

[MomzillaNC]

It is sad that mankind is capable of such casual inhumanity. However, mankind is equally capable of stunning compassion and great humanity. The same human race gave us both Hitler and Mother Theresa, both Pope Francis and Donald Trump, both democracy and Stalinism.

[Tate Morgan]

I told my mother last night at dinner that i find it disturbing that so many here find the military is the route to a career. Since when is learning to kill a career?

[MomzillaNC]

Well, Tate, the military teaches far more than killing. My nephew learned his tech support skills in the service and now heads up a tech department for St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis. My father learned airplane mechanics in the service and was one of the top rated auto mechanics in the state until he retired. My grandfather learned carpentry in the service, ended up a master carpenter in the Army Corps of Engineers. Two of my sisters were married to men who were corpsmen in the military hospitals and went on to careers in nursing. Another husband of one of my sisters learned barbering and has his own barber shop. One of my cousins learned hospital administration and she had a storied career in medical facility management. Then, there are all the friends and relatives who used their military service to further their education for completely different careers in the private sector, like another cousin of mine who got his degree in architectural illustration while serving in the Army.

[MomzillaNC]

I have a couple of cousins who also went from military pilots to private sector pilots.

[MomzillaNC]

And, my father knows many who served with him who went on to careers in commercial airline plane maintenance and repair.

[MomzillaNC]

Air traffic controllers and communications specialists also receive superlative training in the service.

[Tate Morgan]

learning to kill is not and never should be a career it is what we do as a last result. It is the seed that once planted in a culture leads to the ability to feel nothing for our fellow man. We the United States are all accustomed to senseless death. When i was a child some of the things we now call entertainment were thought on as repulsive.Excusing them as a stepping stone to a career is how we justify the pain we wrought throughout the world

[MomzillaNC]

I understand your perspective. I share most of the same perspective. But, in this real world, we need someone to do the dirty work of defending our freedoms that allow us to hold to our pacifist perspective. What is needed, is a better reeducation as our troops make the transition back to civilian life. That’s always been a missing piece in the discussion, I believe; and part of the reason PTSD is inadequately addressed. I also think more education within the service on ethics and military law and the soldier’s responsibility not only to uphold those ethics and laws, but to know how to recognize and resist unethical and unlawful directives. For that matter, ethics and law should be more a part of everyone’s basic education. Our educational system is sorely lacking when it comes to teaching critical thinking.

[Tate Morgan]

defending our freedom should be done from within our borders By the way we dont have a single contested border.What we have done is to privatize the military leaving behind our military arms when we leave starting another war .What did our troops die for ? all the cities we captured were lost again to our own arms different leaders.This is the truth we leave arms behind because it is easier for the privatized military to order new machinery than to protect our machinery from being used by others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2AhL7brw8

[Tate Morgan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4tmX8yEKQ Where do they get the arms to fight us ? From us!

[Woody]

poignant write and so apt in these days of turmoil where children are used and abused.
so unfair that children are subjected to the horrors of the world.
sometimes I think there's no hope for humanity.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks, Woody. I feel it’s even more unfair and tragic that those living embodiments of possibility are beaten down, ground up, and twisted into weapons of hate and ignorance themselves, depriving the world of the next Steve Jobs, Malala, Elon Musk, Einstein… all genius born of refugees or immigration.

[Woody]

so true, Mom.

[MomzillaNC]

:( I wish it wasn’t.

[A. H. Pinley]

Simple words with a powerful meanings. Hatred puts a gun a child’s hands (Am I reading this right?) A good piece never the less!

[MomzillaNC]

Yes, oops! Thanks for pointing that out. Should be “in a”

[MomzillaNC]

It’s corrected now. Thanks. Thanks for hate review.

[Einstein Noodle]

you have captured the truth in a moment ..children born with limitless possibilities are torn and pasted down a murderous and hateful road .. i am grateful for the perspective of your poem ..the actual acts of terrorism are horrific and complete in themselves but you show us the root ...and with all my heart i believe that can be changed ... if we can only reach them in time :(
E.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. It breaks my heart. It give me nightmares. I wish I could lift every child out of such horrors and wrap my arms around them.

[Einstein Noodle]

yes ... so say we all of good and fervent heart .. love and peace Momz ... love and hugs to you too :}

[MomzillaNC]

:D :D