Background about how the poet got the idea of writing this poem

The poem Children in the darkness by Henry M Bechtold is written in the year 2010. This poem was written when Henry M Bechtold was sitting in his hotel room in Saigon just before Christmas 2009 and was trying to write a poem about the girls who work in the park and how badly men treat them. He was angry but unable to write anything that did not sound trite or weak. He looked at the TV and the news was on. He did not know what the news reader was saying but in the background was a photo of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle. This poem flowed out. The words just came to him and he typed as fast as he could to get it all down.