Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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r ' Time To Love, To Hate, Of War, Of Peace The scream - S Of a f child cuts the delicate warmth; |fomes once calm, lived-in, reassuring, Transform to desolate ruins. •■ • Boots starrjp their path in human parts Creating chaos here rionejexisted, and was dreaded, ordering Figures to dig and strip, if Without feeling ' S. ( ► f Without pity. • ■ WL Murder dohe, they toastithe numbers, ' Slapping brotherly:backs ' in beerhouse chorus They worked hard today, these brothers arms they took to babies ' heads and View uncomprehending ains ontcJ%A3thers ' faces. fcatMl ath. can ' t (rate. Fighters who heard sug • Hate ' V Break a village, halt collaboration, conquer the enemy; accepting calmly % »;-. A noble surrender, sparing tine ssldiers. ' „ ' K Schoolbojgs.yhohad one cheated the other Disguised themselves as friends under fire. One, sacrificed, begged freedom from the wire:; ■ Decorum est pro patria, he answer , Two old men, content with rebuilt farrjjtes, Chat, over pipes by the hearth, ' - ' % - Enchanting children with therrjScars and lov| Old.glories. £ They reflect on.pasts, long.irH) mustered night ' .Gazing at embers, the dying oTthe light. . RemembeAlhdt old king, Solom n ' t the hame ' Who could fejll.us how we must all look at life?, i WellfwierejiTiust have beeft something wrong in ' his game: This hate ar, peace, exist 5n the time for love.