They Are Our Children

Bronze skin, burnt
almost charred
brown like the muddy river,
turned giant waves
in the Tsunami

Eastern sun,
beat on backs
eyes a likeness
to a Chinaman

Many children
with children,
bought and sold
for the price of a
studio apartment
in New York City

Patrolling these streets,
men decked
in uniforms
take bribes
murmur threats
bargain for
more rupees,
as civilians
visit the brothels
simple fun, torture

Countless children
caged and drugged
marinating 'til their turn,
like their mothers

Heroism is dead here
any means of survival,
akin to animals,
sell his relative
even his own daughter.
Hunger, drives him to it


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