The Children ©
Written while watching the News on the War in Iraq.
Margaret Leith Minter
Victoria, BC, Canada
2003
Listen to the children,
they are calling;
they are crying;
Stop the hatred!
Stop the gunfire!
Stop the dying!
Look at all the children.
their eyes so full of sadness;
Stop the bullets!
Stop the bloodshed!
Stop the madness!
Think about the children,
their hearts so full of pain;
Stop the shelling!
Stop the terror!
Bring their childhood back again!
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