Sudan

"Do you want to know me? Do you want to know me?"
Sweet children singing in sweet voices
on an internet that brings there here.

I do want to know them
But not really
Because they live there
and it is much darker than here

There is so dark I might drown in it
there the violence is unimaginable
the fear is too much
the evil is a dark fog that hangs over the continent

I want to help
But I don't know how
I am supposed to forgive and not hate
the leader who initiates so much suffering
But it is hard.

I am supposed to love the children
without choking on despair
But it is hard.