Blog: Bring the Children
Bring the Children
- A Day of the Dead blog by Lonnie Buerge
Submitted by Jan Buerge on
For my Day of the Dead box, I decided to celebrate the children of the world that have died in their attempt to escape the violence of war. They and their cultures have a lot to tell us. I have included several images that I hope help communicate my intent. There are pieces of art from throughout the world included. There is a jar of sand reminding us of the beaches on which they die. There is the sun and the moon that watch over their journeys and their deaths. There is an angel that cannot protect them all. There are broken, jagged edges that are still beautiful but, in fact, are no long intact pieces. There is a bell that is silent and has quit ringing.
Come with me to the table
of peace and let us bring our
children to sit beside us
and their children behind them.
Come with me to the table
of peace and we will sit in the
midst of the bloody bodies
and the parts of bodies
and the crumbled walls and
the gaping ceilings.
Let us talk of what we wish for
as we hold the hands of our children.
We will not blow the dust away
from our table of peace.
Instead we will let all our children draw in it
with their fingers that are still intact
and they will draw what they wish for
and where they want us to go.
And we may follow them or we may
blow them up but they will be with us
in this hour of our greatest hope and chance
or our hour of total depravity.
Come, sit with me and my children and
you and your children
and let them draw
in the dust of our follies.
