One Day the Soldiers Came - Charles London
One Day the Soldiers Came
Voices of Children in War
Charles London
To all the parents, mine and theirs,
alive or dead, who try, against
the odds, to protect us.
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or where one could weep because another wept.
—from W. H. Auden’s Shield of Achilles
We that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
—from William Shakespeare’s King Lear
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