I Come and Stand at Every Door -Hiroshima Child

 

Nâzım Hikmet

(1902-1963 / Turkey)

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Hiroshima Child

I Come and Stand at Every Door · Pete Seeger

I come and stand at every door
But none can hear my silent tread
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead for I am dead

I'm only seven though I died
In Hiroshima long ago
I'm seven now as I was then
When children die they do not grow

My hair was scorched by swirling flame
My eyes grew dim my eyes grew blind
Death came and turned my bones to dust
And that was scattered by the wind

I need no fruit I need no rice
I need no sweets nor even bread
I ask for nothing for myself
For I am dead for I am dead

All that I need is that for peace
You fight today you fight today
So that the children of this world
Can live and grow and laugh and play

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القصف الذري على هيروشيما وناجازاكي : 6 و9 أغسطس، 1945: يمكنك زيارة متحف هيروشيما التذكاري للسلام افتراضيا , متحف ناغاساكي للقنبلة الذرية

NAGASAKI PEACE official website of Nagasaki City NAGASAKI PEACE official website of Nagasaki City 

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (hpmmuseum.jp)