Another Sky

better days

ANOTHER SKY

The stores have little left to sell
That isn't old and doesn't smell
No trucks bring supplies
A mother walks in Haifa Street
Searching for some food to eat
Veiled but for her eyes

The birds have emptied all their nests
Hearts so loud in tiny breasts
Gone to another sky
You can scare them just so long
Before they go and take their song
To another sky

They won't come back in the spring
Gone the song they used to sing
Before the war
Each tree hides an empty nest
Leaves are choking on the dust
That wasn't here before

Smoking metal makes us cough
Another car bomb just went off
In the Haifa market
The longest summer now is done
Her children never saw the sun
Safer in the darkness

No one knows when this will end
Who is enemy or friend
Who is wrong or right
Electric wires we use as wicks
To heat the inside of old bricks
To keep us warm at night

At dawn there is no singing heard
Where are you, my little bird
Who used to sing so sweet?
Engines grind, horns they blow
Who is who, we do not know
Today in Haifa Street

The birds have emptied all their nests
Hearts so loud in tiny breasts
Gone to another sky
You can scare them just so long
Before they go and take their song
To another sky

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