August 30, 2011
Conflict Minerals
How many times?
How many times before?
How many times before a child can walk 12 miles to school without hearing bullets busting rusted roofs?
How many times before a father could farm without seeing limbs on the brown soil that would feed his children, mother and sisters?
How many times before a kid turns a soldier in the name of the precious metal…future lost in struggle
How many times before a mother loses her daughter?
How many times before her dignity is torn?
How many times before a girl is raped in the name of your engagement ring?
How many times before the blood stops drowning the minds of the youth?
How many times before we brain wash our kids with glitters bearing the scars of their peers?
How many times before we realize beyond land and borders across the sea and sky sits a mother waiting for her child to return, a child that is mining out our pride?
How many times before villages are destroyed, schools ruined, and raiders honored?
How many times before conflicts are initiated by bracelets, earrings and chains?
How many times before death marks empowerment, pain grants pleasure and happiness bear muted sobs?
How many times before the bling bling fuels the bang bang?
How many times before genocide cuts and shines graves for our distant relatives?
How many times before life is indirectly affected, without knowing is robbed?
How many times before dreams are shot in the name of venom gifts wrapped with delusional vow?
How many times before we expose ourselves to reality instead of exposing innocents to cruelty?
How many times before…we stop deceiving ourselves?
How many times before we end following standards without knowing the reason, valuing nonsense to impress the system?
How many times before we avoid financing horror, conflicts, and terrorized metals?
How many times before we start mending the wound?
How many times before we stop ignoring the facts?
How many times before we see,
How many times before we change,
How many times more before?