Written for Mind and Life Matters’ Limerick Challenge Week 7: Aspire
Headlines are filled with war, tension, and death
Humanity blurred with pride, greed, and meth
She yearned for peace to settle
Save life’s remaining petal
Hear the children laugh; smell a baby’s breath
Photo Credits: Arkibo ng Bayan
I read a terrifying and saddening news in Rappler about some extremist groups here in the Philippines pledging allegiance to ISIS. While we are stuck amidst the height of political feud, religious bigotries, health issues, and extreme poverty, some of our little brothers and sisters in Mindanao are either breathing with fear or trained to fight a war they have not started. Gone are their laughter; gone are their smiles. What ever happened to “The Children of Tomorrow”? 😦
February 19, 2016 at 11:46 am
A great limerick that is so true and close to our hearts. 🙂 I wish the Avengers are real. Maybe they can save the world. 🙂
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February 20, 2016 at 12:52 am
Now that’s a great thought… Or a fairy godmother? (Coz I’m imagining if we use the Avengers there will still be a BIG fight) Hehe! 😀
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February 20, 2016 at 8:19 am
Haha! 😀 You are absolutely right! Avengers love to fight. They’ll create a chaos before we can find peace! LOL! 😀 Fairy godmother is better! 😀
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February 19, 2016 at 1:14 pm
OH… What a lovely poem about a very saddening truth. *sigh*
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February 20, 2016 at 1:14 am
True… I was really upset when I read about the allegiance to ISIS the other day. I knew this was bound to happen anyway but it’s just saddening to think we couldn’t avoid it. Hay naku!
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February 20, 2016 at 11:41 am
Yes. It’s saddening and a bit frightening too. Kasi andyan na sila. Hayst.
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February 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm
That is so deep and meaningful, Maria. The worst kind of terrorism is the one that hands guns into children’s hands! Humanity is a part of a dwindling list of qualities we humans possess nowadays! I really feel terrible about the fact that young ones have to live in fear of being taken away to be trained for a war they have nothing to do with!
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February 20, 2016 at 1:00 am
I couldn’t agree more, Rashmi. It pains me to think most of those kids never get to live and feel how it is to be a normal boy / girl. And what’s more disheartening is that they are taught of a different kind of truth, told of a different kind of history, and they would grow up with thinking that the only way to achieve peace is by inflicting violence…
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February 19, 2016 at 11:10 pm
Wonderful Limerick, Maria! I agree with you. It is so very sad. 😦
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February 20, 2016 at 1:01 am
Thank you, PJ. I’m not certain when or how but I wish this would come to an end…
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February 20, 2016 at 3:16 am
Yes, we all do.
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February 19, 2016 at 11:16 pm
Oof, a wonderfully written limerick and very touching.
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February 20, 2016 at 1:03 am
Thank you, Jade! I guess reading the news has go me emotionally disturbed today.
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February 20, 2016 at 1:48 am
The news does tend to do that to a person, which should make us realize something’s very wrong with the world if it’s such a cruel place to live in
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