Invisible Children
My Tribute to the Invisible Children in Uganda
I wrote the song below as I was thinking and imagining myself as a child soldier who was kidnapped by the LRA and turned into a killing machine. My first reaction after watching this documentary was utter disgust at how children, little, naïve, and beautiful children were abducted and brainwashed to murder, slaughter, kill, and destroy. My heart broke for them. I would have never have thought of it. Never. Abducted, yes, I could picture that. Beaten, yes, I know it happens. But to be exposed as young as five years of age to violence such as murder with knives, machetes and guns, forced to do so, and then to be threatened likewise if they tried to escape; made me sick to my stomach.
They were taught not to cry, not to be weak, or they would be killed. One of the boys who escaped from the LRA said “We don’t cry, but they don’t know what is inside our heart.” Yet it is not difficult to imagine their initial hidden emotions that soon become lost deep within them. Who, then, can rescue them? How, then, will these children ever truly know what is right anymore? Who can ever understand the terror, shock, and horror? Who can sympathize with the pain, grief, and sorrow?
Only Jesus can.
Invisible
They took away my family
They stole me from my life
No one else would find me
No one else would try
I was trained to murder
They taught me it was right
To laugh when someone suffered
They taught me not to cry
When no one else was looking
When everyone was hiding
Could no one hear me shouting
Will someone please do something
They
Desensitized me
Demoralized me
Programmed and they hypnotized me
Made me kill my friend beside me
Addict me to the blood that I see
Please
Liberate me
Alleviate me
Loose me from this evil in me
Help me see what I cannot see
Release me from this war and set me free