A boy floating on a rug,
May have better chance
Than with mother’s hug,
Who wants effort enhance
Survival on a perilous tug,
Fleeing seditious advance
Save errant boat capsized,
In a bid to flee the conflict
Where peace be said alive,
But its refuge not explicit
As bureaucracy deprives,
In silence to the desperate
A boy’s fate is compromised,
To be sadly found face down
On a rocky surf too helpless,
As man wallows in indifference…
How to save a drowning child
From a country war torn toll,
In spite of civil servants’ bile
Held wanting a declare untold,
For said bureaucrat’s dusty file
Ignores a child’s reaching hold,
Finds fellowman fail, to go the mile!
in memory of a boy called Alan Kurdi,
and all war-torn children sacrificed,
thru man’s warring need for greed!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Conjugated People ~ by shade ~
Poetry on a Canapé 