In Memory of What

Boutros Buotros
      Boutros-Ghali
Can you bring peace
      In Kigali?

Slobodan Milosevic,
Genocide
      Just makes me sick

Zapatista Castillo
      Where to stop,
           How far to go?

Lonely Bertrand Aristide
When will Port-Au-Prince be freed?

Old Man Mandela,
      de Klerk et. al.
Can you calm them
      In Netal?

On the bank in Jericho
Yasser got Yitzhak to go

“And why”,
      I ask a million times;
For every time
      A church bell chimes

In memory.

In memory of what
      I wonder.

(c) 1994 Norman Dziedzic Jr.