Silence of the Civilized

With his limbs ripped off in a blast, Mounting challenges await the Gaza boy, And though he will be winning good hearts, When he cries that Mum can’t be held now, The stony silence of the civilized world, In the face of his stepped-up mute suffering, Should be seen as another frontier of agony, And herein we have the conclusive evidence, That hearts are made numb by unending savagery. By Lynn Ockersz.