Child Soldier

Appears haggard brainwashed
AK 47 drags, heart-beat trauma
Probably 9 or 10 years of age
Boy or girl conscripted in war
Bush-bred deprived of school
Ordeal to survive, hungry soul
Blurred speech irrational mind
Effects of hallucinogen drugs
Dangerous kid fantasy of war
Mandated extinction life itself
Kills and rapes blood or alien
Abused homegrown criminal
Evaporated reasoning faculty
Potent arsonist minor terrorist
No childhood, dreams ruined
Blurred integrity no empathy
Psychological as brain trauma
Culture of violence blossoms
Greed and lust demise recipe
Therapy necessary who pays?
Endangered cub now menace
Propagate truth war a demon.

August 23rd, 2004 by