Heavy school bell paid for the small,
In Iran hundred sixty-eight who fall.
Under the dust of brick and stone,
Their childhood dreams are left alone.
Silence shows above them all.
They don't wear a soldier's dress and be tall.
Who could justify this bitter thrall?
The Iran war depicts the hollow groan—
Heavy school bell.
Lawless and against the wall,
With these war crimes' sacred mandates to brawl,
How the innocent are sown.
Such war crimes the world must now disown,
School children and their spirits call—
Heavy school bell.
May 3
May 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM UTC
Heavy school bell paid for the small,
In Iran hundred sixty-eight who fall.
Under the dust of brick and stone,
Their childhood dreams are left alone.
Silence shows above them all.
They don't wear a soldier's dress and be tall.
Who could justify this bitter thrall?
The Iran war depicts the hollow groan—
Heavy school bell.
Lawless and against the wall,
With these war crimes' sacred mandates to brawl,
How the innocent are sown.
Such war crimes the world must now disown,
School children and their spirits call—
Heavy school bell.
A rondeau is a 15-line French poetic form consisting of three stanzas (quintet, quatrain, and sestet) using only two rhymes, with the opening phrase (refrain) echoing at the end of the second and third stanzas. It typically features an aabba aabR aabbaR rhyme scheme, where "R" represents the refrain.
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