YEMEN: 4 Years, Where Have We Been

4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen with a devastating war Yemen crushed by Saudi war criminals Yemen wounded by US' immorality Yemen killed by too many's frigid hearts Yemen unbelievably destroyed 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen a skeleton Yemen with its sustainable resources confiscated Yemen its country's wealth no more Yemen with blood everywhere 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen with 20 Million affected Yemen with babies deceased Yemen with young orphaned Yemen with old without shelter Yemen with men buried under sand Yemen with women raped Yemen with countless widowed Yemen trapped under rebel with people screaming for help 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen in shock Yemen weary Yemen with its hands up high in the air pleading for an end Are our hands up with them Are our foreheads wet Are our eyes full Are our mouths dry Are our fingers in motion Are our legs fatigued Are our brains thinking YEMEN: 4 Years Starving, 4 Years Dying, 4 Years Bleeding, 4 Years Grieving, 4 Years Hurting, 4 Years Too Long Not With Our Oppressed, 4 Years Too Late We Must Begin

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