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Dreams in the Dark

May 18, 2021
By TrialKasai GOLD, Partlow, Virginia
TrialKasai GOLD, Partlow, Virginia
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She tightly grips her mother's hand

And stares into the darkness

She couldn't really understand

This world that held no justice

 

"Everything will be alright"

Mother whispered in her ear

But this cellar banished from light

Could only hide her tears

 

She knew the war that was outside

She's known it since her birth

And yet she hopes, though she hides

Someday she'll walk the earth


The author's comments:

I wrote this poem after I got a few words from a random word generator. Those words were justice, cellar, and earth, and they made me think of Zlata's Diary, from when she and her family were hidding in their cellar during the war in Sarajevo. 

It's sad how war can destroy the lives of children. It becomes their "normal" and they can't imagine a world where they don't have to live in fear. I wish that wars wouldn't happen anymore, and children could live without fear, no matter where they live, what they look like, or what they believe in.


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