DARKNESS SURROUNDS <br /> <br />It is still night <br />Darkness surrounds <br />And I sit in a small space of light <br />Inside I write in quiet and peace <br />Outside the War goes on <br /> <br />Once I knew what it was to live <br />Without others trying to destroy <br />What I most care about <br /> <br />But that was in another world long ago <br /> <br />For forty years now <br />I have lived with their hatred <br />And their trying to kill us <br /> <br />For forty years <br />There has been violence <br />And the threat of greater violence <br /> <br />It is quiet inside <br />And the darkness is everywhere <br />I go on in this tiny space <br />Waiting for the morning to come.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/darkness-surrounds-3/
