Stop Bombing Aleppo! Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Stop Bombing Aleppo!



Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo!
Maybe many have not heard of you
Maybe your name is so strange
To find in the world map in classrooms
But you are a voice in the wilderness
Screaming for help and salvation
From bombs that keep on falling
also from the mighty claws of power
meeting in Geneva round talk tables.

Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo!
Your children are fished out from rubles
Dead or fortunate enough to be rescued alive
Your children are screaming for food
And water, denied access to these basics to life.
Your children are gasping for breath
As they wrestle with chemical gas on air.

Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo
Let us join you in your scream
from the last breath of your lungs:
Please stop bombing, Aleppo!
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September 11,2016

Monday, September 12, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: action,compassion,global,power,responsibility,solidarity,war,war and peace,war memories
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