Poem for Peace
Elaine Audet | 26.04.2003 10:34
In our living rooms a January evening twelve years ago
We sat in darkness watching a pale night sky
Pierced by a multitude of splinters
Blazing burning stars falling through doors and windows
In a ballet leaving nothing human in its wake
They wanted us to believe that the equivalent of Hiroshima
Of more than all the bombs dropped in the Second World War
Would destroy only empty buildings leaving life intact
Like father like son deception continues
Sisyphe
This poem is also published in french, spanish and persian (farsi).
Welcome to the poetry column on Sisyphe.
We sat in darkness watching a pale night sky
Pierced by a multitude of splinters
Blazing burning stars falling through doors and windows
In a ballet leaving nothing human in its wake
They wanted us to believe that the equivalent of Hiroshima
Of more than all the bombs dropped in the Second World War
Would destroy only empty buildings leaving life intact
Like father like son deception continues
Sisyphe
This poem is also published in french, spanish and persian (farsi).
Welcome to the poetry column on Sisyphe.
Elaine Audet
Homepage:
http://sisyphe.levillage.org
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