Witness If you should findThis noteYou'll knowThat I am dead And I can testifyI diedAloneAnd terrifiedAnd in great pain And I can testifyThat though I amA childAs innocentAs yours And though I criedAnd pleaded forMy life They only laugh…  | By The Rising Phoenix Review on August 24, 2024 | Witness If you should find
This note
You'll know
That I am dead And I can testify
I died
Alone
And terrified
And in great pain And I can testify
That though I am
A child
As innocent
As yours And though I cried
And pleaded for
My life They only laughed at me
And slaughtered me
And left me there
For dead And that makes you
My eyes
My voice
My advocate The only witness to
My suffering
And their
War crime And now it's up to you
What you will choose
To do By Steve Babb Biography: Steve Babb is a retired health worker who has fought for social justice all his life. He has written poems on a variety of social justice struggles, including Central America solidarity/anti-intervention, antiracism, immigrant detention, and the movement against the genocide in Gaza. He has been inspired by the poetry of witness of Anna Akhmatova, Roque Dalton, Carolyn Forché, Clint Smith, and Javier Zamora, and by the lyrics of Rosana Arbelo and Silvio RodrÃquez. | | | |
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