In the horrible death of one 13-year old child

of Kismayo,

in the south of broken Somalia,
one can see the essential flaws of humanity as a whole.
The reason for our fall, why we are
trying to take an entire world
with us in to oblivion.
           
A thousand people witnessed the brutal murder
of a violated child,
and not one who had the courage
to be a human being.

Would I have had the courage?
Would you?

The price of bravery
would have been death,
if one couldn't have been
an example to hundreds.

But if in a thousand people
there is not one ready to put their life at stake
to save a raped child from a terrible,
violent death,
then what hope there can be
for humanity?

What hope for a species
that faces
the greatest tests during it's existence,
when among a thousand
there is not a single hero?

02.11.2008, modified 21.01.2013.