“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” * 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