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MayDay

January 23, 2010
By GirlWithWords SILVER, Mc Donald, Tennessee
GirlWithWords SILVER, Mc Donald, Tennessee
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children Children strung together
with a scarlet string: culled,
selected, kidnapped, abducted.
They travel time and the world a million times
over, but they remain diaphanous.

children Children begin young everywhere,
why are these Children not?
Seduced and forced they are taught to tie
those crimson dahlia ribbons 'round
children's heads, heels and hearts
until they starve to not touch those
ribbons, to not know what they knew
(that oo had been bound with the
cardinal ribbon), but only know how
to shackle more and more.

children Children may return to the life
of late, but it's forgotten them. That
life has seen too many ribbons, too
many scarlet dahlias bursting
forth from the arid terrain. This life
has forgotten that children Children
were bound in ribbons

The author's comments:
A piece on the wars in Sudan, mostly on the children that became prisoners of war. We were shown a documentary on the rufugees in Sudan; a child drew a picture of the POW children strung together with a thin red line.

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