Day 523/Ceasefire Day 53

All the schools are destroyed,
and in this they are indistinguishable
from the houses, the hospitals, the mosques.
If everything is rubble, where can this child learn? 
Two houses times seventy thousand houses
equals nothing. Nothing is what remains. 
And if x equals the lives of a single family, can
she multiply that by the sum of families
totally wiped out?  And divide it then
by heartbreak, by longing, by the number
of tears that could fill an empty well? All
this child wants is to go to school, but where?
Where can she study the algebra of pain?
How can she learn to measure the quantity
of blood absorbed by the ground?  The ounces
of fear?  The degrees of hunger?