Invisible Children

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One heart is racing to the beat of others

One mind spinning to the wheels of the army truck

He only has to live through one more day

Take it one day at a time, just avoid the Rebels

 

He sleeps on the floor, crammed with millions of others

Each day he fights for the right to sleep there

On the floor of a hospital, with not enough room

Children cry, children pray,

Thanking God for living another day

 

His brother has been lost

Captured to fight for the LRA

And he’s beaten and he’s bruised

And forced to kill his friends or die himself

 

They are starving and dying

If they’re not kidnapped then they’re subject to aids

Girls are raped, hundreds daily

Used plastics bags, thrown and picked up in the streets

They’re used as condoms, pretending their working

 

And their forced to fight, forced to move

Forced to fear each day and praise God for life

They dream of America, land of the free

And they dream of peace of happiness,

Of a world without war

 

In Uganda, in Africa

Men walk, boys, walk around with AK-47s

Ready to shoot anyone who is a “threat”

Ready to kill or be killed

They fight to live, and die fighting

 

They live in the brush,

Captured against their will

They’re beaten, they’re torn

They look without seeing and numb their hearts

Cry and you die, show emotion and you die,

Feel and die.

 

A secret world that no one knows about

Three teenagers who travel and suddenly see

They open the eyes of the people

We are going to start a revolution here

We are going to stop the war there

Reviews

[Allie Dean H.]

You did an awesome job and the site cannot put that much power into the message as this poem. You definitely got the whole movies message in that poem. Not many people even know about the was going on there so its great that you just got it out in this poem. If this made even one person learn about the problem then you did good. It's terrible whats going on and we have to do whatever we can do to get people to help. Even if all we can do is write poetry.

[Kt]

You pretty much covered the documentary with this poem. I really like the last stanza.