Goodbye grandmother
Thank you for your love
And laughter;
We will miss you
Beautiful sunrise this morning. My mother and I stayed with my grandfather last night and I took this from his balcony.
My grandmother passed away on Tuesday morning. It was a big shock to all of us and very sad but it is a bit of a blessing as well as she had terrible dementia and we’ve found some solace knowing that she is finally at peace.
She was cremated this morning. She would have loved this sunrise.
See the soldiers on the warpath
See the people fall like stones
See the leaders stand in silence
See the bodies and broken bones
Hear the daily call to prayer
Hear the crowds’ angry cries
Hear the bullets roar like thunder
Hear the stories and bloody lies
We read about it in the papers
We see it on our screens
We watch it from a distance
We turn away from the screams
They’re bleeding in the streets
They’re dying all alone
They’re calling out to God
But they’re all on their own
Now the streets are quiet
Now they mourn the dead
Now the world holds its breath
Now the flames are refed
Soon the bodies are falling
Soon there is only pain
Soon another child is orphaned
Soon it starts all over again
How long will it go on?
How long will the tears flow?
How long will we sit in silence?
How long will we watch the show?
America sits in judgment
Israel reaps what it sows
There’s no oil to plunder
Just death in Old Cairo
I wrote this after watching scenes of the violent crackdown in Egypt. I was becoming increasingly annoyed with the media coverage and the attitudes of the leaders around the world and felt like I needed to give voice to what I was feeling.
The photo is a shot I took last week of the sun rising over the ocean. I thought it suited this quite well.
A red sun rises Over the ocean As birds welcome The new day
The sun rising over the ocean this morning. It was a beautiful sunrise – the entire sky looked like it was on fire and I took this just before the sun disappeared behind a cloud. Some days nature really smiles on you.
