Remembering Rwanda
Pitiless they come
Red fevered rage
Dry eyed in sight
Of weeping victim
Blighted forever
A harvest of killing
Poem by Bristol poet Dr Edson Burton
http://www.hmd.org.uk/genocides/rwanda
Pitiless they come
Red fevered rage
Dry eyed in sight
Of weeping victim
Blighted forever
A harvest of killing
Poem by Bristol poet Dr Edson Burton
http://www.hmd.org.uk/genocides/rwanda
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