There I saw a kid behind a tree
A tree not typical as we know or see
Branches from far, limbs from near
Screams so loud so painful to hear
River down the hill yet not clear
As I got close, the agony I couldn’t adhere
There sat a kid behind a tree
Not the typical tree or a child that you would see
Blood flowing non stop pouring
Is it a nightmare or is it really happening
Scenes from a horror movie
Too cruel to be a constant reality
As I stepped further
To the kid as I get closer
I noticed snowflakes, how could it be in the middle of summer
As they touched my skin, it started to burn, snowflakes from hell what a bummer
As I went further I started hearing a sound
A sound so hedious my ears started to bleed all of a sudden
Too evil to be true I presumed
Certainly it’s just a nightmare I assumed
And there was the kid behind the tree
Speechless from the images that I see
I asked the kid how does it feel
The kid with trauma, a trauma that may never heal
He was smiling covered with blood and ash
As he spoke in a hurry in a rush
As if somebody is going to twist his tounge make him go hush
He said with tears down his cheek
This is what it feels like when cruelty reaches its peak
I’m not the typical kid you know
Who dreams to be a doctor all grown
Me, no I can’t even dream
I was born in a world of shadow without a gleam
I live every single day as if it is my last
Cause all of a sudden I could be part of the past
I play, I laugh, I smile as if it my last
Cause all of a sudden I could be part of the past
I play, I laugh, I smile as if it my last
Cause all of a sudden their hell on me they can cast
Too loud,too painful, too fast
Too quickly turned into the rubles of the past
I dream to just exist, where my breathe isn’t a burden
Where I am not a corpse all of a sudden
Where I don’t feel thousands of shattered pieces in despair
With those innocent eyes he asked is it possible for all of this to be fair
Don’t I matter he pledge to me as he stare
As he continued to tell me his story
One that’s painful so scary
I look up at the sky, the sky that was once calm
Yet now it’s melody changed, a merciless slam
I wonder if I wake up, if I could still lift up my palm
They say I am a human animal,that I am a monster
All the evilness, all the filth, I foster
Maybe cause they see my face
Covered in ash dripping in blood, they think I’m a lost case
You can see right,the light that is with in
Maybe you don’t, maybe it’s trapped in the glooms of the rubble never to be seen
They say children are colorful flowers when they bloom
But our petals were always painted red,picked apart from the womb
Speechless stuttering, I asked why are you sitting here
Behind the shades of bodies, overflowing blood and bursting sounds you hear
He smiled again these aren’t bodies or limbs
This isn’t just a tree as it seems
Here I laughed with my sister and brother
Heard stories like mine from my mother and father
This was a peaceful, happy place for us
Our own spot where nobody steals joy from us
Where we felt free, not like subhuman class
In dread of the answer I might get
I asked where are they now ,have they left
They are scattered he replied
Scattered on the river side
Scattered in the ground a land so wide
Scattered with no where to be found
You were asking me why
Why I am sitting here, behind these tree
I am here waiting to be taken
Taken to a better place a safe heaven
Where I am not punished for being a kid
Where I am not pictured as a rotting seed
Where I am not covered in ash,where i don’t bleed
I am waiting to be part of these rivers
Where my body never shakes nor shivers
I was so eager to help him
As his sound was fading becoming so dim
His last words he uttered
You have seen how I suffered
You have seen how my body is battered
You have seen how my family is scattered
You have seen how my dreams where shattered
Yet to come to my aid nobody bothered
This is my story the kid behind the tree
For they have made me body-less
I beg you not to make me voiceless
I beg you not to make my tragedy nameless
In your prayers REMEMBER ME
How a child grew up in conditions he wasn’t supposed to be