Children of War

Off the stuccoed walls, the shells peel The wounded babes bleed There is a story of harrowing kind To every war This one is no different to others The babes die in Aleppo The world maintain the stony silence Mothers' hearts shattered to pieces Meanwhile by both the forces of Assad and Isis. The lucky few hit the jungle In Calais braving the oceans And the deadly shells Seeking shelter from us. Yet a hysteria breaks In heartless media Demanding the samples of DNAs They are not one of us We must kick them back to the jungle And have them deported to their lands Bombed. We won't offer no succor Let them be tortured Let their bones get fractured Let their mothers’ hearts shattered They are not one of us. These kids need a right old kicking The heartless whores of tabloid shout. We listen And hold our heads in shame Powerless: On the face of demonization of the victims Of the war Where is our tolerance? Where is our compassion gone?