Poetry "Iraqi Children in War"

Reflections on reading children's photos in the Iraq war

May the world be peaceful? Never have a war.

-Inscription

children

Where are you going?

Look back at the broken Basra from time to time.

Look back at Basra from time to time.

Ah, don't you want to leave your hometown?

In the face of dehumanizing war, there is no choice.

children

Lovely child

If it weren't for the war

Maybe you are still hiding in your mother's arms.

If it weren't for the war

Maybe you are sitting happily in the classroom with your classmates.

children

poor child

What about your parents?

It was blown to a pulp by a night attack plane.

Or fight bloody battles to defend the motherland?

children

Helpless child

Where are you going?

Maybe I don't even know where I am wandering.

Kid.

No matter how far you go.

Never get out of the shadow of war.

The photo "Fire from the Sky", known as "Ending the Vietnam War Early", was shot by American photographer Huang, who won the Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism and the Dutch World Photojournalism Award. 1June 8, 972, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close. The invincible American army became hysterical, bombing civilian villages and unarmed people. Susan sontag once wrote: "It's like the photo 1972 that occupies the front page position of most newspapers in the world-a naked South Vietnamese child who was just sprayed with napalm in the United States ran along the road to the camera. She opened her arms and screamed in pain-this may be more effective than the atrocities of a hundred hours of TV broadcasting in arousing public dislike of war. "