Thursday, April 25, 2013

Silent bombs


They kill twice: first, when they explode and take the lives of innocent civilians, mostly women and children, and second, when survivors of the explosion die in life slowly as they mourn the deceased and demand justice. A justice so blind that can barely see the atrocities and the suffering inflicted.

But perhaps the most destructive effect of a silent bomb is the one that endures over time. This absence of noise that kills hope of survivors, and that stifles the screams and laughter of childhood games. A shockwave of silence and destruction. A void life. An endless wait. An unanswered why.

And that silence becomes impunity for attackers, who systematically violate the right to life in the face of the negligence and complicity of our leaders.

I can not avoid innocent people to be killed, but at least I would wish that bombs that have exploded and explode almost daily in Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kashmir, Palestine, Mali and Congo, to name a few countries in almost constant conflict, resonate in our homes with the intensity of bomb attacks committed  in Europe or the United States. That the silence of children resound in our ears unbearable. That the tears of those who weep flood our senses and emotions to dip them in the same loneliness and hopelessness of the victims. And so, react against this apathy, as a drowned person that takes a deep breath when it rises to the surface, so we will back to life, reborn as human beings who share their existence and struggle together for a peaceful world.


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