A Child In Gaza Speaks of His Friends

 

there's one I can't find

one with one leg

one with no mother

one underground

one under rubble

one with one eye

one with no hands

there's one I can't find

one who can't hear

one who can't laugh

one in the north

without any food

one in the south

without any roof

there's one I can't find

one who played soccer

one who played chess

one who liked cats

one who liked birds

one who liked math

one who liked verses

there's one I can't find

one in my dreams

when I have dreams

when I can sleep

which is not very often

she tells me something

that I cannot hear

there's one I can't find

one by a wall

one by the roadside

one by the shore

searching the tide

one in the moonlight

one in the sun

there's one I can't find

one I remember

one that I can't

one day we sang songs

in the bright afternoon

there was the scent of fresh bread

that's what I recall

there's one I can't find