Queria que as crianças não morressem.

Queria que fossem
temporiaramente
elevadas aos céus
até a guerra acabar.

Depois regressariam a casa seguras,
e quando os seus pais perguntassem
Onde estavam?

Elas diriam:
estávamos a brincar nas nuvens.

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) Poeta palestiniano

[eng version]
I wish children didn’t die.
I wish they would be temporarily elevated
to the skies until the war ends.
Then they would return home safe,
and whren their parents would ask them,
where were you? They would say,
we were playing in the clouds.

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) Palestinian Poet