The Killing Fields?

Question

Guys tell me if this is a good poem about the Killing Fields

In the dripping gloom you see
A normal crop field
Nothing is wrong until you look closely
What you see will leave you horrified

All the skulls and bones you see will make you weep
You see the fears in their eyes
The fear you see is just like twenty five years ago
Children , babies, adults and the elderly were killed all the same

Brainwashed teenagers mindlessly killing
Not having a mind of their own
Brainwashed thinking this will help their country
Causing massive genocide

There was more than mindless killing
There were torture dungeons
People would be beat to give a confession about breaking the new order
After doing this they think they were safe , but they were killed the same

The Khmer Rouge caused all of this
Working our ancestors to death
Everyone is worked to the bone
My mom and dad are the few that escaped

The Khmer Rouge caused all of this
Working our ancestors to death
Everyone is worked to the bone
My mom and dad are the few that escaped

The Khmer Rouge caused several types of deaths
Starvation
Execution
Exhaustion

A mindless massacre
Causing over two million deaths
In only three and a half years
So much death had occured

This slaughter was worse than any other
Cambodians killing eachother
During the years of the Khmer Communist Regime
My dad was three and a half years in jail for being an officer of the Military Police

The dead weren't given seperate graves either
They would just be thrown in together
The followers not caring who they were
They just did what they were told

These are the fields we should remember
It is one of the many called the Killing Fields
We remember the fields
Between the dark and the daylight

Tell me what you guys think about this poem

Answer 1

Im a first generation Cambodian...If my mom knew English and read this she would be dramatised even more....Strong Poem though

I dont know why but in History class they dont qualifie this as a genocide

Answer 2

The Killing Fields = genocide. seen in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, and a selection of of alternative African worldwide places,etc., those are possibilities for one ethnic or ideological team to smash en mass yet another team opposing their ideology or perceived as a available possibility. shame.

Answer 3

Powerful

Answer 4

touching!