No, This Is Not A Broken Doll

No, this is not a broken doll.  
This is one of many a child. 
Died in a children’s hospital.  
No, this is not a broken doll. 
 
No, this is not a broken doll.  
This was alive, a mother’s child. 
It died in a distant bombing raid. 
No, this is not a broken doll.
  
No, this is not a broken doll.  
This, the result of our abomination. 
No quiet prayer is enough to observe. 
No, this is not a broken doll.
  
No, this is not a broken doll.  
This is the shame of a silent moment. 
The world does well to keep its silence. 
No, this is not a broken doll.  
 
 
From the FB words of © Antonio Pala 17 February 2016  
Poem adaption © john william brown 21 February 2016 
Photograph - photographer unknown in Syria 2016