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Hark Listen	A
No ear has ever heard what l heard	B
The cry of a baby	C
But this one was quite unusual	D
lt seemed to be echoing an unusual message	E
What famine is this	F
That caused even a day old baby	C
To cry out l am hungry	C
	-
Then landed another cry in the ears of my heart	G
lnterluding with the child's cry in a saddening chorus	H
A weeping woman the baby's mother	I
With torrents of tears	J
Teetering down her cheeks	K
She sought fellow women for comfort	L
But to her own astonishment	M
They were each wailing much louder than she was	N
Their voices culminated to their sticking place	O
And polluted the atmosphere	P
With an acrid smell of grief	Q
ln one swoop of the devil	D
The once upon wives	R
Had been turned into chanting widows	S
Their husbands victims of the curse of war	T
Amid the turmoil of mourning	U
The preacher could hardly hear his morning sermon	A
Blessed are the mourners for they shall be comforted	V
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Hark Listen	A
No ear has ever heard what l heard	B
Nor retina seen what l saw	W
The eerie whistle	D
Of another descending zeppelin	X
Like the nocturnal owl	Y
Gliding lowly and slowly	C
Towards its complacent rodent prey	Z
ln the light of darkness	H
Talons resharpened and ready to sink	A2
lnto the depths of life	B2
So was the bomb	C2
As it flapped its wings in flight	D2
Toward uncertain target	E2
Which would otherwise be me or even you	F2
just but two numbers	G2
Amoung the inumerable armourless	G2
Powerless	G2
And hopeless civilians	G2
	-
With my shadow as my only cover	I
I enfolded my hands over my ears	G2
ln vain ofcause	G2
And sought refuge	H2
ln the darkness of closed eyes	G2
l could perceive	I2
That my facial expression	A
Just like everyone else	G2
Defined fear very accurately	C
l could discern everyone wished	J2
They had died when they had the chance	G2
To die in a better way	Z
But a mere wish it was	G2
And so our eyes were obliged	K2
To see what they did not want to see	C
And our ears to wait expectantly	C
For a sound they were very unwelcoming	A2
	-
Boooooooommm	C2
So fatal was the deafening explosion	A
But the silence that followed was more deafening	A2
Than the explosion itself	L2
That for a while and a half	M2
One would gladly think	A2
Their long overdue wish	N2
To be translated from the land of the living	A2
Had finally been granted	O2
Everyone lied prostrate on the crumbled tarmac	A2
For a while longer	I
But our mental illusion was interrupted	V
By a far off faint cry of a horrified baby	C
Slowly but surely	C
l opened my eyelids	G2
One eyelid at a time	C2
And was greeted by the ghastly sight	D2
Of wounded and dead bodies	G2
Scattered helplessely	C
All over the distorted terrain	P2
l was definately not dead	Q2
Not dead yet so to say	Z
Because the worst was yet to ensue	G2

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