Peace and Justice Post

Cesar Chelala,  Counterpunch, 17 July 2025

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri.

As children roam empty streets

Their eyes dried of tears

As the mentally challenged

Find no solace, no help

As single mothers

Ask in vain for food

Deprived of their most basic support

Unjustly taken away from them

As the disabled fight, and lose, against their fate

And promised help never comes

We wait for compassion to show its face

We wait for compassion to show the best of us

Compassion will give meaning to our lives

Because this is what we need in today’s world

For the children, the unprotected, the aged and the challenged

Compassion will unite us, and will save the world.

Dr. Cesar Chelala is a co-winner of the 1979 Overseas Press Club of America award for the article “Missing or Disappeared in Argentina: The Desperate Search for Thousands of Abducted Victims.”

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