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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=586391" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Decay Of Innocence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We value Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation 3,<br>Over our ethics and the way the world should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Double quarter pounder, super sized coke and fries,<br>While Cambodians starve and children die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We abuse our teachers and our schools,<br>While children slave on fields as labour tools.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This pen in my hand as I write this now,<br>Was manufactured by a child in a factory town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We turn on the news; the new IPhone is here,<br>And we neglect the next segment of fatalities, famine and fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are proud of our reputation; the fattest nation on earth!<br>While malnutrition plagues children from birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we smoke our cigarettes and drink our beer,<br>Ignorant that we’re only bringing our own death near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We permit factories to pump fossil fuels into the air,<br>Disregarding its effect: I don’t know… I don’t care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coral reefs die, Bush fires burn,<br>And mines empty the earth, while oil rigs churn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are devastated by Swine flu and the many that die,<br>Not shedding a tear, but for Michael Jackson we cry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sons of Palestine, bleeding in hospital beds, <br>Getting slaughtered by Israeli planes flying overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are aware of the economic crisis, feeling its pain,<br>However is it not conspicuous, we are to blame?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What will be of us once our IPods are broken, our pens write no more?<br>Once cigarettes, alcohol and drugs consume us all?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And long after the last corals are dead and forests burnt? <br>And long after fossil fuels plague the earth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What’s done is done and we can’t change the past,<br>But the future is now and the future is us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was once the Cambodian hungry in my sleep,<br>I was once working in fields, blisters in my feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I was a child of malnutrition searching for food in an empty bin,<br>While others fuelled their addiction, on the streets, money in their tin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was once a child soldier at the age of ten,<br>And once worked in a factory to manufacture this pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write this now not to boast or preach,<br>But to educate, inspire and to teach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Equality is not a privilege, but a right to us all,<br>As is laughter for a child and playing football.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sparkle in a child’s eye, the essence of innocence and to be gay,<br>Nothing should take that angelic nature away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However neglecting the world, not looking beyond today,<br>Causes that innocence to decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Basil+Jaber">Basil Jaber</a><div class=q>
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