Life in Mogadishu
Since 1991
The city
Collapsed into
Anarchy and
Warlordism.
Famine
Came and
Americans
Led the UN
To attempt
An intervention
To “save lives”
It ended in
Black Hawk
Down chaos
And dead
Americans being
Dragged in the
Streets by
Angry mobs.
There was a
Young teenager
Who like so many
Others struggled
To survive the
Overwhelming
Odds by joining
His local
Warlord’s militia.
He had nothing
Before but now
He sat in a truck
Manning a Machine
Gun and
Terrorized the
Population
Stealing
And chewing Khat,
A mind altering
Drug.
One day he
Was shot in the
Head by a rival
Gang
And lay in a
Squalid hospital
Room with virtually
No supplies
No surgeon
And sparse
Electricity.
His mom cried
Over his swollen
Head wrapped in
A white gauze
And swatted away
Flies from his
Face. He barely
Had any
Consciousness.
A few days
Later he
Died.