Will We Remember February 5, 1997?

by Alex Hazin, Amal "B" Comprehensive School, Petach Tikva

A night
One night
And another night
And another night
And two days
And three days
And a week
And a year
What will happen then?
Will we remember what happened?
Will we remember when?
Will we look at the stars and remember them?
The 73 soldiers who died, but when?
They were up in the sky
Brought a tear to our eye
And never were seen again
Their bodies have stayed
But their memories will fade
But a tear will drop down every day.

This poem previously appeared in The Amal B Star- The Student Newspaper of the Amal "B" Comprehensive School, Petach Tikva, May 1998.

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