Doomed is the town
Inhabited by the Storm God
Along the milleniums
It has sustained fifteen empires
Four Kingdoms and Caliphates
Invasions waves succeeded each other
From the Hittites to the Mongols
Hosted all religions
Each one bringing destruction and killings
As an offering to that sanguinary deity
When it was felt insufficient
An earthquake wiped a quarter of a million lives
It is a very demanding God , Hadad
Do the names of Khalpe, Khalibon,
Beroea, Haram-Zobath, Halam, Halab,
Alep, Aleppo resonate at all?
Barely rediscovered from oblivion
The Thundering One
Required a new donation
Amidst exploding bombs
Children, women and men are killed.
Aleppo will rise once again
From the smoking ruins
To feed this bloodthirsty God
For as long as mankind exists
It will follow the red hazed folly.
Lucette C. Bailliet
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