Since when
Do I reach an age
Can I write to strangers
Across the miles
While living in near luxury
While limbs are torn
Heads are severed
Women are *****
Children  removed from their parents
Forced to drink filthy water
Scrounging in the dirt
With muddied tears
Since when have these deeds gone on?
Before letters, scripts, shrouds, and candles
Since the light appeared
That, is since when.

Spontaneous text.. Dan Lehrman MSW