Children in the Darkness Poem Task 1

Children in the Darkness

There are children in the darkness
Who have not seen the light
There are children in the darkness
Who someone will teach to fight

Chalk and blackboards will not be
To this door there is no key
From this life they can not flee
And these children are not free

Could we simply light a candle
Could we give them half a chance
Could we teach them how to read
Could we teach them how to dance

Or will a war consume them
Their body and their soul
Will their life and blood be poured
Down some endless thirsty hole

Back into the darkness
From which there is no flight
Back into the darkness
Into which there shines no light
Henry M Bechtold

The Poem talks about how some children are hidden away and shun from society. It shows how some of these children know nothing about the real world and are therefore used by other people for their own needs.
The Poem tells us how these children cannot escape this terrible life no matter how much people try to help them. At the end, war will “eat” them alive and kill them letting them die for no good reason nor use. This Poem tells us that the children dyeing this way are a vicious cycle that will never end. It exaggerates how sad and meaningless these children dyeing are.