A young girl, maybe eight years old, crying,
Surrounded by destroyed homes and rubble,
Aleppo, Damascus, Homs, all dying,
Drowning in the blood of its own people,
Smell of rotten bodies, mass graves are filled,
Youth stolen, she's forced to be a grownup,
Real life Hunger Games, kids are being killed,
Imagine friends and family blown up,
Accounts of mutilations and torture,
News journalists are executed too,
Girls and boys are orphaned without shelter,
International aid reaches but few,
Run from concussion of exploding bomb,
Lamenting out loud she misses her mom