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Rwanda

Rwanda And man will fight with murder and destruction When peace and negotiation can go no further Heaven shed many tears; to see that man Does not even try to find peace if he can For man has turned against each other Heaven is full of sadness; and brother against brother Humanity await his greatest fall While heaven pray for us all In the midst of this madness and pain Everyone should remember Abel and Cain Save six thousand;one man, General De Lare Risk his life, has love to share As Belgium rules Rwanda, the child The sibling rebels, revolts and runs wild The Rwandan president is dead; his plane is shot All hell breaks loose and the temperature gets hot The Hutus,supporters of the foreign government Decide to bring genocide on the peaceful Tutsis without armament Men women and children,are mowed down with machete and guns And so instead of helping, the Belgian army runs France, Italy, Belgium and the Vatican see the massacre of a peaceful people The catholic church loses its steeple They turn their backs, turn up their noses The people die and their families are forced to smell the roses To take their ex patriots, the French, Italian and Belgian appear And after they leave, hardly a Tutsi is found standing there The United Nations Pull out, no diplomacy, no oil, no solution Things turn seriously grave, the Tutsis are swallowed up in this revolution When eight hundred thousand Africans dead All across the world, not a tear is shed In every nation, love leaves, and enters hate Atlantis revisit, as man does not see his terrible fate .William Morrissey 1/28/07

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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