DR Congo Crisis - 2018

DR Congo Crisis - 2018

I experience an inscrutable pain

Stabbing through my crying heart

As young victims silent screams

Are muffled during ethnic cleanse

Immorally and savagely butchered

By crazed machete wielding sadists

More innocents’ of this Congo war

Collapse aghast around my visions

Like blazing moth powdered wings

Destroyed by malevolence flames

Each home in smouldering mounds

Lay in ashes on scorched ground

A raped girl of ten stands traumatised

Suffering nightmares through each night

Reliving graphically the ripping of a foetus

From her tortured dying mother’s womb

The world’s longest humanitarian crisis

Remains unacceptable unresolved

And this will be the deliberate status quo

Unless World Leaders exert stern pressure

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2018

Reviews

[emmajoy]

If a solution's considered to be lacking in advantage, there's no hope in hell that the necessary force or finance will be offered. Negative opinion, yes; truth, yes. Let someone prove me wrong. Now.

What's been going on has been ignored because excuses can always be found by indifference. Years hence - arms will rise, tears will fall but a generation won't suddenly come to life.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Your words are true – I highlight the issue, as worldly distractions tend to obscure other important issues. i.e. The Trump vs. Putin dummy spitting contest – thank you for your welcomed opinion and review! Bless :-)

[emmajoy]

Amazing that you've had 30 views and only my review.. proves a point, don't you think. One day's news becomes the rag that wraps the rubbish.

[Earl Schumacker]

Hi Phill Oz O'fee,
This is a very powerful thought provoking Quatrain poem. Nicely done. I also enjoyed the the first 3 haiku poems you have on your site. Very nicely done. Keep up the good work. Earl

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thanks Earl - very much appreciated!

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

So YES, this kind of genocide is what the world’s attention and resources should be dedicated to halting. You are so heart-breakingly right in your indictments. Poets such as you dear Phill give voice to the voiceless “raped girl of of ten” and her people. Your graphic words and horrific imagery push their plight to the forefront of our collective consciousness- ours. The eloquent language, simile, metaphor, flow and driving rhythm of this poem is compelling. By osmosis, or some kind of grace, your wirds will reach the ears and move the hearts of those poweful few- to humanitarian action NOW. Thank you my friend for your eloquent and most important voice.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you for your most humbling words dear friend - bless you! :-)

[Paul Bell]

Strange how the world ignores whats happening in the Congo.
Not just the Congo, though. Plenty of other places.
It seems you can rape kids, kill kids. But you definitely can't gas them. That is unethical.
It will definitely get a response from western powers.
Sad times ahead. Well highlighted.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

amen to what em said here...and to your poem and the atrocities it explores...will there be an end to them?
not unless hearts change...and people find some way to respect each other...
others' lives have to matter....and when we destroy others both inside and out, there needs to be consequences of conscience ...but will it ever happen?

i just don't see it...there will always be those unconscionable souls who have no fear of God of the end...they see themselves as superior and invincible...and the only ones who matter.
j.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you for a wisdom filled review - bless :-)

[H L Rose]

Complacency and ignorance are such big masks that make people forget just how evil this world is.

I think your word choice is great.
"silent screams"
"Collapse aghast"
"malevolence flames"
"Suffering nightmares"
"deliberate status quo"
These are just some of my favorite examples of great word choice.

I do wonder though if "malevolence" was meant to be "malevolent" for grammatical reasons, but I could be totally wrong. My grammar sucks.

I also think not ending on an end rhyme was great for furthering to convey the theme.

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

[Phill Oz O'fee]

May thanks to you for a thoughtful review - I used the noun malevolence instead of the adjective malevolent, to convey having a harmful or evil effect or influence - I think either way would work! Bless you friend .. :-)

[H L Rose]

Of course! It was an interesting read.

[sette]

i just don't know how evil had exists this long and to violate the rights of a person is totally evil. and with all the international humanitarian organizations around, why not solve the problem, why not learn to respect and not to discriminate, just by reading this poem makes me wonder, how come there are people like that, purely evil with no conscience at all?

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you for your review - it fails all logic as to why this evil is allowed to continue - Bless you :-)

[sette]

you are most welcome