Aleppo, Syria! Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

And the bombs
keep on falling
thrown over their
heads and houses.

Then comes a little pause
a very short break
of silence, enough
for Samaritans to
rescue the dead
and the wounded.

But the bombs
are dropped again and again
after a very short break,
wounding and killing
even those whose aim
is only to help.

Fear paralyses and kills!
The Syrians in Aleppo
cannot anymore wait
for a little silence or break
from all bombings and hate.

They have to run away
run away from fury
of death and blood bath
that have long plagued their
nation by the hands
of those who want to dominate.

But is there a border
open to receive them
after their long flight from death?

______________
February 5,2016