The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters <br />and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, <br />with four dead and eleven wounded. <br />And around these, in a larger circle <br />of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered <br />and one graveyard. But the young woman <br />who was buried in the city she came from, <br />at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, <br />enlarges the circle considerably, <br />and the solitary man mourning her death <br />at the distant shores of a country far across the sea <br />includes the entire world in the circle. <br />And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans <br />that reaches up to the throne of God and <br />beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.<br /><br />Yehuda Amichai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-diameter-of-the-bomb/
