ANOTHER ALEPPO CHILD

Aleppo Child
Why don't you cry?
Is it because you finished crying at your birth
Now you wonder what it was worth

Aleppo Child
Why don't you cry?
Are your emotions like stone
Even when there is little you know

Aleppo Child
Why don't you cry?
Is it because of the blood on your face
Is it all you have to wash the dust away

Aleppo Child
Why don't you cry?
You feel this is a dream
Soon your mother and father will wake you up
But you find them in forever sleep

Aleppo Child
Why don't you cry?
Where your tears drained away
To fill al-Assad's pool
To wash away his guilt only to put on a suite of a fool

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2016

ALEPPO CHILD

One man wants to control it all
The money, the land, the beat of your own heart
He will take it all away in one day
Make so much pain God won't hear you pray

Aleppo child why don't you cry
Maybe it's better you don't
This pile of stone was once your home
Why cry when you're alone
Covered in dust with no one to trust

What can I say living miles away
With my nation's lies will I understand why
Everyday living like its night
In your, country another person dies in a fraction of a second

Aleppo child why don't you cry
Because you don't know how so why even try
Or do your tears fill the capital's fountain
Just so Asad can take a swim in
Just to wash away the blood of your mom and dad

Nothing grows in the ruins of war
A wasteland becomes the only achievement of man
Can't create peace from war like you can get blood from a turnip
If you could the many lives it would save

Aleppo child why don't you cry
Living in the eternal night

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2016