How can I help?When you are there, broken,And I am hereAnd really it is never clear what spoken spellMight make all well. If I really tried, inside my mind,Could I find the golden phrase that stays with youAnd acts like glue to bind againYour fractured brainand heart? Are there words that could start to sowA [...]
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Phoenix Freedom
I was born, this time, as often beforeat the tail-end of chaosand darknessand war.Shaken by horror, at last, you could seesomething worth saving,protecting,in me. Helpless and fragile,naked and small,I hadn’t much chanceof survivingat all.And yet, once you saw me,your heart recognisedsomething you’d lostthat you wished you had prized. Something so precious,so fragile, so true:a gift [...]
Every Mother
Every motherEverywhereCarries in her heart one prayer: FatherGodMother MildAllahSpirit: Save my child. Keep them safe,Let them be able to come home to me. Mothers of the WorldUnitedBlighted by our biggest fear: One day our kidswill not be here. Let me not live to see that day.Let my children be OK. Every mother,Everywhere,All religions:Just one prayer.
What is it good for?
What is all our learning for if, still, we haven't learnt that war is a game that can't be won? That all is lost when once begun? Is there justice we can findthat doesn't leave the whole world blind? Each cut deeper than the last;Never learning from the past: Innocence lost at innocents' cost. If [...]
A letter from her solicitor
I’m writing this to inform youmy client has intent to suefor whiplash, which she got that day.That’s how fast she looked away from the sight of your sad plight. Look!What’s that?Look over there!She thought she saw a millionairemattering much more than youwho swung so swiftly into view,She turned to see, as I explained,And that is [...]
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