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When the Familiar Vanished
New York Cesar Chelala
Nobody knew
when growing up
that one day we would wake
and no longer recognize our world-
that the values
we believed unbreakable
would simply cease to exist,
as if swallowed by a sudden fog.
That no one would remember
the meaning of peace,
social justice,
kindness,
while the distant, children’s cries
of suffering continue
unabated, and unheard.
And children pray for a world
that knows how to protect them,
how to be gentle again.
Child mother. Malawi. @ Cesar Chelala |
