Guinea 1018 dead
Death by statistic
Statistics of the dead
Figures of casualties
Thousands gone
Liberia 2413 dead
Western Africa 89 hours
3, 943.7 miles
A big enough reason
To ignore
Sierra Leone 1510 dead
Numbers, figures, strangers
One death a tragedy
One million a statistic -
Stalin said.
Western Africa 4941
A total, a figure, a number
An ocean of distance
A world away
Not on your doorstep.
How much suffering can be ignored
And when do you care?
When it's on your own doorstep?
When you're the statistic?
