Where Has The Hope Gone in Those Smiling Eyes.

 

They ask why he has darkness in his eyes.

Why does he cry and never smiles.

Something inside of him wishes there was no yesterday.

That's when he watched his mother slowly pass away.

 

He was searching for food in the bombed-out town.

There he saw his mother laying on the ground.

He held his mother as the tanks were bearing down.

And the missiles continue to explode all around.

 

He wiped away the blood on her face.

This boy lives in a dangerous place.

He tries to remove some of the metal in her head.

But he knows that very soon his beloved mother will be dead.

 

His home, his school and now all his family have gone.

In the middle of a war, he now stands alone.

Him and thousands of his friends.

Just sit and wait for the bombs and missiles to come down again.

 

When the attacks finally come to an end.

There is nothing left for him and his friends.

The hope you used to see in his smiling eyes.

It has long gone, like his family it has all died.

 

Nataiella July 2024.