The Forgotten Syria! Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Your scattered children
are covered by ashes;
inhaling smoke and poison,
as bombs and blasts
continue to rule
the ground and air
both endless days and nights.

Houses and buildings-
law and order,
cars and parks,
shops and schools
history and museums
and human lives
are fallen and ruined
as lost treasures-
devoured by hungry gluttons.

Syria! Syria! Syria!
Your mothers cannot shed
tears no more...
Your children have lost
their language to tell
about what lies there in.
And the world remains
deaf to your endless cries.

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March 18,2014