China Jon's Syncretic Journal

Watch Them Sleeping,
Sichuan Children

Come by here
and watch them sleeping.
Little children softly weeping.

Come by here
and warm their night.
Little children sleep in moonlight.

Come by here
and ease their pain.
Little children in the rain.

Come by here
and sooth their fears.
Little children full of tears.

Come by here
and hear them crying.
Little children dying.