Monday, October 10

In Her Own Word


Gbowee Talks About Winning Nobel Peace Prize

The voice said, “Gather the women and to pray for peace”

100,000 dead
Hospitals destroyed
Sewage flooding the streets
Boys given drugs, forced to kill

The women of Liberia,
Cloaked all in white,
Protested in Monrovia’s fields,
In wind and rain

We are tired of war.
We are tired of running.
We are tired of begging for bulgur wheat.
We are tired of our children being raped.

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