Genocide in the Sudan - Photograph by Wendy Stone

SUDAN

Sudan is a land lost in the backwater of time
Time now is as it was twenty years ago

Mothers and children slaughtered
No good reason but for War

That hard Mistress called War,
Wife of Death, sister of Dread and Disease

Cousin to Pain, Hunger, and Despair
War is a harsh Mistress to all

The children always are the ones
The small ones who suffer for War

Lost in the times of War,
Lost in the backwater of time

A time long ago, in another War
Another war in the sands of Sudan

My eyes saw and my mind saw
The Ravages of War on the children

It is the same, no matter the War!!
It is the same, no matter the Time!!

Time does not make changes,
Only man can make changes,

Man will not make changes, because
Because he is in love with WAR!!!!