“Why must I go to school
Oh Mother!
Why can I not sleep?”
“But child no good can come
To lie at home forever”
And so I must embark
To face another dreary day
Not knowing what beholds,
The future, today.
Bells toll and lessons begin
But flapping wings I hear
Not a bird
And not a bat
But Death’s Angel nears
For me he comes I fear.
A crimson sky above me floats
Below a river flows
Of blood and fire
And forlorn desires,
And so Death’s hand I take
To depart for the world above
Below I glance;
The world fades
What was so important
I cannot remember
All I hear are a woman’s cries:
“Why oh Why!
Must I go on
In a world without my child”
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And now we pray
A solemn prayer
For those departed souls
Peace to them
And peace to us
May the black winds abate
And a glimpse of light
A glimmer of hope
We see again.
In memory of those killed on 16th december in an attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan