Sleep, You Beautiful !

The names and the faces of children change... The brutality and the misery do not...

Let the darkness of the night Be washed away By the morning light That's here to stay. To spread across this blessed land That bleeds now in mortal pain.

Don't you be in a rush To be awake To play To run In your mother's warmth Or to be in the joy of school...

You just sleep deep Sleep, you beautiful!

Sleep in prolonged, eternal bliss Now that you've found Ever-elusive peace, That stayed far away from you When days of misery, is all you knew.

You were too fragile to take This vicious cycle of war and lull, To make any sense of That long, concrete wall.

But now you are free. Your lifeless, charred body Maimed by their shrapnel Has taken you away from this living hell.

I won't miss you much I've been too numb, too out of touch! My indifference has blocked all your pain My bankrupt conscience has destroyed my shame.

So sleep you beautiful, sleep in mirth Fly away from this senseless Earth...!

* More than 60 children in Gaza have been killed in the last few days of Israeli bombings.