WE TOO HAD A DREAM

I like to wake up hearing

My mother’s voice, tender and kind

We wish to be with our family,

Me and my sister- only eight she is

Too small to know the world

Still she doesn’t know the shadow

But the wide eyes of her show

She fears something always

We but wander along borders

Designed by somebody,

Some long years ago!

We liked to go to school

Where our classmates loved

Each other ; happy were we there.

We loved our teachers and schoolmates

But no school now, we to go!

We had a home, a small one

We were happy there as in paradise

Our sweet mom, the loving heart,

Our caring father, our good neighbors,

Our grandpa with a thousand tales,

But we lost all!

We got under the shadow

The shadow of hatred bloomed

Somewhere but spread afar borders

It came suddenly in the form of

‘Bats from hell ’ and  flare-ups,

And small but hot pieces of led

Shattered the blocks where we in peace

Dwelled into ruins in seconds

Pierced the innocent unaware

The hatred, the so called liberators

Are really disguised fanatic

Lost us all; lost us everything.

But still we have hope; a day

Will come; the shadow’ll vanish and

The sun’ll rises for us, the children.