“RWANDA and the Like"

“The first CNN “Super Close-ups” of the dead and the dying in Goma, Zaire of 
those fleeing from the chaos of Rebellion and Genocide in Rwanda.

The end is coming
It looms like a cloud
The sky is darkened
It looks like a shroud
Death dark and final 
Shadows on the land
Bodies are lying
Stretched out in the sand.

Rwanda, door closed
Like Bosnia bound
The folks who lie dead
They can’t make a sound
Those who are living
May pass in the night
And those who hate them
Still think they are right.

The stuff of nations
Pours into the wound
The dead and the dying
Their death chant is crooned.
Still no one can say
Why it must be thus
Can we believe all
The news tells us?

Are hearts still so small
On this globe of man
To blind all the world
And not raise a hand?
Not from the outside
But deep from within
To bring back the peace
Start over again?

The UN drives food
All over the world
Are met with bullets
And flags unfurled
From the same countries
Who sit in New York
Enjoy our freedom
Eat food with a fork.

At home is nothing
There’s death in the land
Here is McDonald’s
They eat all they can
Their talk is the same
The storm rages on
“The Do” is nothing
It sounds like a con.

Eat well while you can
The cloud that is near
Will snatch you away
So you won’t be here.
Then home you must go
Face all who remain
Look at their faces
And tell them your name.