Old Zion enemies offer peace advice <br />Proffering peaceful Arabs, <br />Foreign arms sellers promote peace <br />Tender arms embargo or propose <br />Stocking the competitor, <br />A sale is a sale. <br /> <br />The uncivil war <br />Grinds homes and bones <br />Undoes a nation <br />Cleaves sects from the body <br />And deep delirious trauma <br />Ensures wounds remain septic. <br /> <br />Basher smashes, safe in fortress <br />Assured his might is right <br />By entitlement and indignation <br />Against the audacity of challengers <br />Voices and actions against their <br />Asserted natural ruler. <br /> <br />Children hide in a Roman burial cave <br />Dank from history <br />Cannot conceal their terror <br />Little light enters <br />Blanketed black and fearful <br />Father killed by war <br />Childhood terminated <br />Uncertain of Mother's return. <br /> <br />Outside, the crushing days <br />And years flick past, <br />Within, the darkness pervades <br />Each fragile body and brittle soul.<br /><br />Danny Draper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/syria-13-march-2013/
