Heart of darkness

Children are innocent. Everywhere. Always.

I don't want to see another blood-speckled bundle. I don't want to hear that yet another child has been killed. And another. And another. And another. Because of adult hatred. Adult problems. Adult decisions. Adult impulses.

I don't want anyone's child to be terrorized or traumatized. I don't want a single child to die from our mistakes and failures. Our failure to talk, our failure to listen, our failure to sympathize and compromise.

Children are dying from ecocide, genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, from our inaptitude as human beings. Again and again and again.

It's the 20th of November in the year 2023, World Children's Day, and it's as if we haven't learned a goddamned thing.