Survival Program
- How do we mourn a hundred children?
- Feel the absence of one small hand
and then one other.- How do we mourn a hundred women?
- Listen to one missing voice
and then another.- How do we mourn a hundred
- fathers
brothers
lovers?- Trace the shape of one missing face
- and then one more.
- How do we save a thousand lives?
- Hold one hand
listen to one voice
look in one face
at a time.Anitra L. Freeman