War on Children
(Gaza, Palestine)
1
"The sound
of the singing shells
(in Gaza)
has taken the tongue
from its mouth.
“Kill anything that moves,”
the Israeli generals say…
In this darkest of rooms
the hands of the clock are beating
each day into my brain
like a nail,
the soundless silence crying
“help, help, help!”
But it is the children’s eyes
on the screen
that scares the noise away,
takes all the breath from the lungs.
It tears like a crazy person through
the walls of the house
and still no peace can come..."
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