Turning A Blind Eye

Use your euphemisms but the reality remains

This is still genocide by any other name

Too much agony and bloodshed for the perpetrators to hide

Too much apathy and bloodlust for us to justify

Too much western world indifference to keep this savagery at bay

Too much need for intervention to just look the other way

For the refugees of Darfur

The end result looks bleak

Our never ending evasion

Their end without relief

We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood

The first world has forsaken all of those who died

Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world

We have turned a blind eye to genocide

Not enough tolerance, attention or humanitarian aid

Not enough of an outcry to stop the bludgeoning with the blade

Not enough compassion to combat all of this despair

Not enough resources to be plundered for the western world to care

Atrocities committed

The machete swings again

As our population thinks

Their population thins

We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood

The first world has forsaken all of those who died

Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world

We have turned a blind eye to genocide

They plead

We look the other way

They bleed

We look the other way

They die and we just look the other way

Can’t we utilize more than empty rhetoric? can’t we do more than pretend?

Can’t we show some real conviction when we say “never again”?

Can’t we see where this is heading? Can’t we see what is at stake?

Can’t we ever learn our lesson and not repeat our past mistakes?

They pay with their lives

We pay them no attention

We bury our heads in the sand

As they bury their children

We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood

The first world has forsaken all of those who died

Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world

We have turned a blind eye to genocide