Ukraine War Crisis. Please Don't Bomb Children's Hospitals And Maternity Mothers! Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

The hour of peace and rest just moves away
when anxiety wakes up and makes one sway;
as the children's hospital and the maternity ward was bombed
no one knew where to run or where to hide,
no one wanted to die or get wounded
neither no one expected death to come and carry them away;
they were waiting on their hospital beds
hoping to recuperate, get well and go home.

Suddenly there were airstrikes
on the maternity ward and children's hospital;
the patients who lay their in their beds were women
some were sick children unable to walk or run;
these patients lost their course of treatment;
as some got wounded, some just died,
and those who must have survived
must have cried out aloud
with shock and disbelief and no relief.

Is this mercy or is this inhumanity
that airstrikes target hospitals
without any compassion or pity?
are hospitals not the venues
which take care of helpless people
whether they are women or children?

is hospital not a place for the sick and the ailing?
is hospital not the place to give birth to babies?
is maternity ward not the place for mothers
to have safe deliveries and take care of their infants?
is hospital not the place where soldiers are born?
is hospital not the place where life needs
to be respected and revered?

Have mercy on the sick and the wounded,
have mercy for their condition and helplessness
have mercy and let humanity prevail and survive
for life is the most precious gift
which can never be replaced once lost.



Note:
In the space of 24 hours Russian forces have shelled a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol and two other medical facilities in Zhytomyr, northern Ukraine.
Pregnant women, children and doctors are reported to be among the dead and wounded.
The World Health Organization estimates that at least 18 hospitals have been attacked by Russian forces since the invasion began on 24 February.
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