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Snake and ladder
Snake and Ladder
Am running,
Running and gasping through the ways unknown.
I don’t know where to go,
I don’t know where to hide.
Running and gasping through the ways unknown-
But I know, they still want to hunt me.
Am sad and doomed-
But no tear dropp in my eyes.
I had a river in my eyes-
The day they told me, am alone.
Still running to hide,
Hide in a heaven.
I don’t know you, freedom,
May be I am running to my destiny.
But I don’t know how long and how far,
Still I can run.
Still chasing me, still hunting me-
They still want me, why?
I just threw a stone-
And it just touched their armor.
Can a stone beat a war tank?
But I know, still they want to hunt me.
I have played snake and ladder,
But no ladders now.
I don’t know how I can win,
I just want to hide and quit.
Running through streets-
Stained and messed with blood.
My ears are deaf, am I pretending?
I jumped above barbed wires, a routine.
Can’t see the children crying, lost in roads.
Can’t hear the blasts, am deaf.
Where to go? Where to hide?
I don’t have a home, a family.
Mother, father, brothers and sisters,
They live in my memoirs, everyday.
But I know, they still want to hunt me.
Far here, I know your childhoods-
You play with guns that are unreal.
With us, it’s real-
We just can wish if that were unreal.
Am running-
I saw a boy who fights for food.
You waste your food-
And we fast, just everyday.
I don’t have a home to run and reach,
I don’t a have a mother’s lap to sleep,
I wish if I could have my father’s advise,
I wish if I could have my brother’s support,
I wish if I could have my sister’s soothing words.
I don’t know what real hell is,
But for sure, am in hell.
I haven’t seen an angel of peace,
But am seeing demons just everyday.
Never have seen a sky that is calm,
Smoke, dust and flames as they wish.
You wish you never see a nightmare,
I wish if these were just a nightmare.
Born into poverty, stepped into penury-
I played with guns.
Can’t stop my wishes-
I want it unreal, I want a toy gun.
Living in chaos that seems no bounds,
But I know, they still want to hunt me. Why?
Running and gasping,
Heard a gun shot that was near.
Am still running, running to my destiny.
Ho… another shot, this time it’s with me.
Running and gasping,
Escaping to my destiny.
Can you solve this riddle?
Is this the freedom I wished for?
Running and gasping, I am chasing my destiny.
[in memory of those children&teenage soldiers and for the peace of lot another youth in Palestine]
poem
by
Clint Elias
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