Joyce Bou Charaa is a Lebanese writer, editor, and book reviewer whose articles are published in The Mark Literary Review, Newpages, and currently in The Indiependent. She has a BA in English language and literature from the Lebanese University.
Tragic Land
How much of a sorrow it is
to see your land falling apart
But, you’re unable to fight back?
Stuck with your chains of fear.
The land is now suffering,
The people are in grief,
Misery is haunting them,
Wars, tragedies, death.
As if it’s their destiny,
As if nothing can be done
It’s God’s Will.
No hope can erase the sadness on their faces,
No sun is there to rise again,
Nothing is left there,
Nothing but ruins and dust!
The Field Guide Poetry Magazine 