Open Letter to the Korean Red Cross

Dear Korean Red Cross,

Our commendations

four thousand family reunions

between North, South

vigilance, innovation

connects families face to face

letters, videos

seventy-five thousand families

wait since 1953

sober reunions

fleeting moments

sorrowful hellogoodbyes

No trace, effort

to reunify two hundred thousand families

Korean War divided

South Koreans

between East, West

two hundred thousand families ignored

waiting since 1953

Korean language lost

sabotaged reunions

negligence

switched children

tampered DNA tests

You shall be charged

with war crimes

civilian property destroyed

birth records lost

foreigners took us hostage

When do two hundred thousand ignored

East/West reunions begin?

we die every day

convoys of planes

travel West to East

without hope

we wait

please respond

before we’re extinct