Children in Yemen

While many people all over the world

Are busily running to and fro

Engaging in cheerful holiday

Festivities, one thing we know:

Children are starving and dying in Yemen.

While Saudi Arabia nonchalantly

Covers up its heinous act

Of butchering a journalist,

We cannot ignore the fact

That children are starving and dying in Yemen.

While Congress fails to intercede

And chooses instead to bicker and quarrel

Over whether America should

Keep supporting a war that's immoral,

Children are starving and dying in Yemen.

While the oppressive Houthi rebels

Backed by Iran dig in their heels

And Saudi Arabia bombs the cities,

Intensifying a clash of ideals,

Children are starving and dying in Yemen.

When ports are blocked and money is scarce,

And fishermen's boats can't leave the shore,

And food and medical equipment

Are cut off in a three-year war,

Children are starving and dying in Yemen.

A 12-year-old girl weighs 28 pounds;

An 8-year-old boy weighs about 30.

Chances are slim that they will survive.

Who dares to say that war isn't dirty?

Children are starving and dying in Yemen.

The people caught in the middle are certain

What the fiendish fighting portends:

A huge, unimaginable

Catastrophe unless the war ends,

For children are starving and dying in Yemen.

-by Bob B (12-14-18)