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Cry Bosnia

CRY BOSNIA



Why do I see such sorrow in the child's eye
Why do the mines still make them die

Why are they legless and use a crutch
Why doesn't the world care that much

Why can't children get a decent meal
Why can't the world see what I feel

Why do the monsters still run the show
Why can't the hatred just be let go

Why is the holocaust I've seen with my eyes
ignored by the world in blameless sighs

Why do I find many more mass graves
than cute little children find happy days

Back at home in New York State
I never worried about Bosnia's fate

I was once obsessed with vanity
now Bosnia is stealing my sanity

Strong people survive from year to year
but they don't fool me I smell their fear

Why are the schools riddled with bullet holes
Why do I care..............no one knows

Why are the hamlets and villages burned
Why are all the cars and buses overturned

Why are the harmless cows strung up and hung
I can't figure out what they have done

Why are farm animals killed and impaled
Hell, this godamn society has failed

Why is the hatred so severe
Why.....is the end so near

This is Bosnia as seen through my eyes
This is why Bosnia forever cries.

Mike Monahan, Captain International Police Task Force

© Mike Monahan