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A Walk Along the Shore
  I walk along the Turkey’s Bodrum Beach
  A child’s lifeless body, frozen, silent
  Eyes closed, all his tiny limbs limp and weak
  Once a family’s child and vibrant
  Red shirt, blue shorts calmly swept by the shore
  The child is so innocent and fragile
  Ghastly pictures taken, victims of war
  Once smiling, running freely and agile
  I see his dead brother not far away
  No lifejackets, nothing to help them float
  Drowned bodies piling, turning to ash grey
  One by one, slowly fallen from a boat
  Many people endure conflict each day
  Deaths, dramas, despair, change must start today

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This is a shakespearean sonnet written in the perspective of the photographer, Nilufer Demir who found the Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi dead on the shore of the Turkish beach.