image: An Iraqi woman, who is unable to read, tries to understand the names printed on sheets as she searches for her son on lists of the dead and injured pasted on the outer wall of a hospital in Mussayib, Iraq, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of Baghdad, Sunday, July 17, 2005. Late Saturday night, a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body triggering an explosion next to an gas truck outside a mosque killing at least 60 people. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
image and poem below the fold
All You who Sleep Tonight
by Vikram Seth
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above –
Know that you aren’t alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
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