Each visit brings new life
Each day you carry us hope
We wait in silent stillness
For night and nourishment
Each day brings new danger
Each new fear of watching eyes
You return to hidden rooms
With news of life outside
Each freezing, numbing thought
Each new dread of what is done
You walk a swaying tightrope
To reach to us inside
Each time the sound below
Each deadly breath we must hold
You return with life itself
To raise our spirits high
Today the soldiers came
Today we will go to die
You are pleading for our lives
They cast your pleas aside
Now you are one hundred
Now your courage still overwhelms
Humanity exudes from you
We must carry the past
To understand, to know
Never again, never
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