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  2. ║                   From the village of My Lai,                           ║
  3. ║                   To the deserts of Africa,                             ║
  4. ║                   You are there, but you look on.                       ║
  5. ║                                                                         ║
  6. ║                   Five hundred lives for nothing,                       ║
  7. ║                   All victims of anger and rage,                        ║
  8. ║                   All dead, save one, a young girl,                     ║
  9. ║                   Who lives with her nightmares.                        ║
  10. ║                                                                         ║
  11. ║                   Holding true innocence and grace,                     ║
  12. ║                   And nothing in their stomachs,                        ║
  13. ║                   The slow, needless death and pain,                    ║
  14. ║                   Of the world's children.                              ║
  15. ║                                                                         ║
  16. ║                   What grief have they caused you?                      ║
  17. ║                   What sins have they committed,                        ║
  18. ║                   To make you look on, quiet,                           ║
  19. ║                   When the slaughter begins.                            ║
  20. ║                                                                         ║
  21. ║                   Have the years clouded your eyes,                     ║
  22. ║                   From seeing the tradgedies?                           ║
  23. ║                   Have they dulled your ears,                           ║
  24. ║                   From the screams of pain?                             ║
  25. ║                                                                         ║
  26. ║                   And yet, we worship and pray,                         ║
  27. ║                   To an all-powerful god,                               ║
  28. ║                   Who doesn't hear our pleas,                           ║
  29. ║                   Or see the pools of blood.                            ║
  30. ║                                                                         ║
  31. ║                   Lover of mankind,                                     ║
  32. ║                   Creator of the Universe,                              ║
  33. ║                   Bringer of Floods,                                    ║
  34. ║                   Where are you?                                        ║
  35. ║                                                                         ║
  36. ║                   Copyright (c) 1992 Jared Boehm                        ║
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