Attleboro High students submitted these poems to express their feelings on the plight of the Invisible Children of northern Uganda.

KIM TATON'S POEM

We are here

Yet you see us not,

We are children Yet we have the lives of adults,

We suffer through more than we should,

War

Destruction

Torment

Poverty

Death,

We are the ones who live in nothing but war

But we are strong, resilient

There are over 60,000 of us in a camp/village 40,000 of us are children

Only 600 are able to go to school,

This is no lie

No scandal,

This is purely only one thing

A crime,

This shouldn't be the way of our lives,

There should be peace

Alliance

Happiness

And yet I look around to see,

People dying

Children running through the night

To escape from rebels and forced to become them

Watching family members tortured and killed

Being tortured our very selves

This world is twisted,

It is wrong,

This has been happening for years and yet it has gone unnoticed,

For to you it is not there,

Are you in such a shock to realize what has been going on around

Completely unbeknownst to you?

This is the life of the

Invisible Child.

DEVIN GOYETTE'S POEM

Goodluck.

Broken hearts,

dirt covered faces.

This is the place they called home,

and now they all stand alone.

Sweetheart, you’re too young to act this grown.

Destroyed and shattered,

nothing to wear but tattered clothes,

nothing else to say but be strong,

Sing a song to liven your spirits,

long for the day your heart isn’t made of stone,

the day you can say,

I’m not alone.

Look at the weather, the storm brings a haze.

Dodge the bullets,

run through the maze.

Amazed by the thieves at night,

stay in the light,

and tell everyone to hold on tight.

Honey, don’t say you’re not worth the fight.

But no one cares because they’re all invisible.

and nothing seems right.