blood_oil_and_diamonds monadh war it is happening always happening and what do we do to stop it? we play games for war blood oil and diamonds our children are the price we pay 010314 ... Alexander Beetle done and done 010502 ... monadh how deep our devides how common our desires 010713 ... monadh i bleed you shine we foster growth harbour hate endanger life with a smile 020130 ... reitoei war and blood life and death intrigue and politics father and son economy's screwed. country's screwed. enron has a new ceo. a king of shambles. why can't we just glue it all together. thermodynamics and entropy. a closed system tends to chaos. death destruction chaos stability. silence stillness nothing 020131 ... mon haunted by the future caught up in the past the passing moment of our day done and gone and here again 030309 ... mon i_love_you_world let us live in peace with mutual respect why should we let some die while others live by the hand of humankind why must we blindly trust this fate? what clock do you keep what step and drum do you hear? can you not see a revolution in consciousness emerging? 030713 ... notme it's_all_too_much 040414 ... x diamonds and guns diamonds_and_guns (it's a wicked world that we live in) 040415 ... from now on http://childsoldiers.org/ 041030 ... from now on Sunshine is the state of hope Sunshine is the state of grace But why have you departed from me Now is darkness around I was arrested and carried away by strangers. O they are my brothers I was forced to danced to the beat of their music We ate all the food left behind by my mother And destroyed my very house Now I know they are not my brothers The strangers said they have gone to settle in peace In their home town Where would I hide my self against nightfall? That these child soldiers have made. O sun-shine o sun shine why have you departed from me It is darkness around here, My hopes are down Never to meet sunshine again. -Sunshine by Mohamed Bangura, age 17, W. A. M. Collegiate Secondary School SS(II) ARTS Freetown, Sierra Leone ... When I was born No one told me I would be captured at 10 To show early muscles In the lion’s den But soon I became 10 I’m forced to lay down my pen And learnt soon How to dodge a bomb blast And to make a whole family never last -Oh When I Was Born by Rashid Peters, Student of iEARN Sierra Leone http://childsoldiers.org/ourwritings/ ... "I tell you. You cannot feel the pain of this suffering if you don't see it physically. If you only glance at it, a sword of sorrow will pierce your heart. What on earth is it that man today does not care for his fellow humans?" - Ugandan schoolgirl http://www.waraffectedchildren.gc.ca/ 041030 what's it to you? who go blather from