in September 2004. She was rescued and was a survivor.
This photo taken by a journalist at the scene went viral and spoke of the horror
and also the hope which often emerges in the most evil of situations.
In our current world of darkness and on a day of Remembrance we too must hold on to hope
and strive for peace and and work for love to prevail.
(Remembrance Sunday 2024)
and weep
Photographers and film-makers
take their images of devastation,
and weep.
Reporters, clad in flak jackets,
tell their story of human failure to live in peace,
and weep.
Old people,
once more sift through the rubble of their homes,
heavy with despair.
and weep.
Medicine men and women
try to bind up wounds,
and weep.
Parents watch children play
among diseased and crumbled streets
of a lost childhood,
and weep.
Mothers, fathers, grandparents
hold bundles of the dead,
hearts bursting with grief,
and weep
We, who cannot bear their pain,
switch our televisions to football matches
and bake-offs
and try not to weep.
And God …
seeing once again
what his children are doing to one another,
climbs upon a cross
and weeps.
[Mr. G. ]
Mr G's Ponderings 