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A Child Who Lost It All
Why didn’t you take him back?
Just because he was something he shouldn’t have been
It’s not his fault
It’s his higher ups
It makes me really sad
To know that he went back
To where he used to be
To the way he used to be
The bad place
The bad way
And not taken back in
To where he should have been
The whole time
Safe and sound in your arms
You had a second chance to have him back
After losing track of him
But you stabbed him in the back
Just because he was something he shouldn’t have been
How do you think he felt
When his hope was shut out
Maybe he wanted to start over
He worked hard to come back
To where he is supposed to be
But you showed that you don’t care
And put him back to where it all started
The path of death and horror
Back to being
A child soldier
I wrote this in memory of Mambu, a child soldier in the Sierra Leone war who was rejected by his family even after he was rehabilitated. He was a friend of Ishmael Beah, the author of A Long Way Gone. It’s a must read.
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