Each child that died was yours and mine
We mourners wail and suffer,
Each woman lying now below
Was sister and our mother,
Each man whose eyes forever sleep
Your father and our brother.
We languish now in sorrowful grief
While rockets reign the sky
And run to shelter those we love
Recalling lives too brief
Once laughter was the sound of life
Not guns , nor bitter hate
When children played with toys and sang
Now death has come to violate.
Zinging rockets constant noise
Fill shelters as they fall
Descending clouds of darkness now
Obliterate our life's recall.
We wish to live , we relish peace
To build and not tear down
We yearn for life and grasp to wear
Guardian angels holy crown.
L'chaim ...to life
Corrine Schlessel @2014
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