Shalom Freedman - Darkness Surrounds

DARKNESS SURROUNDS

It is still night
Darkness surrounds
And I sit in a small space of light
Inside I write in quiet and peace
Outside the War goes on

Once I knew what it was to live
Without others trying to destroy
What I most care about

But that was in another world long ago

For forty years now
I have lived with their hatred
And their trying to kill us

For forty years
There has been violence
And the threat of greater violence

It is quiet inside
And the darkness is everywhere
I go on in this tiny space
Waiting for the morning to come.

Shalom Freedman

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