Day 277

If you hide in a mosque, they
will find you.  If you hide
in a basement room, huddling
with your children.  If you hide
in a collapsed building.  If you hide
under two stones that make
a cave.  They will find you
and you will try to run.  They
will pursue you with whatever
they have — iron bars, baseball
bats.  You must tell your children
goodbye three times each day:
when they wake in the morning,
when you go out to find
anything for them to eat,
and when the first stars
appear in the night sky
and sleep draws them in.
Goodbye goodbye goodbye, 
as darkness falls one more time
and you wait to see if
this is the last.