Four or Five Weeks
...but we can go far longer
How will they know when enough people have died? When enough school girls have been crushed? When enough fathers who left in the morning thinking they would return at night to eat iftar with their families and listen to music as the sun sets and kiss their little school girls goodnight as they dream of end to all this violence have been killed? _written March 4 2026
The title for this piece is of course taken from Trump’s statements about how long his war with Iran could go on. God help us.
Thank you, Andy. It is important that we all use the voice we were given. I'm glad you've added yours.
Slain girls’ backpack pile,
dusty, all... some seem blood-stained.
Were at school, bombs rained.
...
War, never wise call,
even when it may seem so.
May we pause, learn, stop.
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Love, ever right call,
even when fear, hate say no.
Will we well respond?