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Aleppo (Dew Drop Inn #24) [42]

Aleppo

Thousands of years to raise these walls,
these bombed out walls.
How many centuries to rebuild them?
Will we care to rebuild them.
What ties severed will be re-tied
or never rejoined in other lands
where our ways will fade
into foreign tapestries,
mere threads among the millions.
Here or there, we will survive,
but our land, our walls, our way of life
will vanish.

© Kåre Enga (20.april.2017) [174.42]


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Aleppo

A thousand years to raise these walls,
these bombed out walls.
How many centuries to rebuild them?
Will we care to rebuild them.
What ties severed will be re-tied
or never rejoined in other lands
where our ways will fade
into foreign tapestries,
one mere thread among the millions.
Here or there, we will survive,
but our land, our walls, our way of life
will vanish.

© Kåre Enga (20.april.2017) [174.42]

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