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Before the Flame Goes Out
New York Cesar Chelala
As our world is once again
drenched in blood
from another conflict
one may ask:
Where are the Gandhis,
the Martin Luther King Jrs.
the Mandelas
the Eleanor Roosevelts
the Mother Teresas of our time--
those who pitted kindness against brutality,
justice against arbitrariness,
compassion against callousness,
some of whom paid the ultimate price
for their beliefs?
We need them;
we desperately need them now,
for the candle of peace
is burning down too fast.
Cesar Chelala's poems have been published in Argentina, Australia, the U.S., the European Union, India, and Japan. Illustration of this poem is by Paola Bilancieri. |
