Cranes Over Hiroshima

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the baby blinks her eyes as the sun 
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falls from the sky
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she feels the stings of a thousand 
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fires as the city around her dies
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some sleep beneath the rubble, some 
wake to a different world
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from the crying babe will grow a 
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laughing girl

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     cranes over hiroshima - white
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 and red and gold
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     flicker in the sunlight like a
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 million vanished souls
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     i will fold these cranes of 
paper to a thousand - one by one
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     and i'll fly away when i'm done

ten summers fade to autumn, ten 
winters' snows have passed
she's a child of dreams and dances, 
she's a racer strong and fast
but the headaches grow ever more 
often and the dizziness always 
returns
and the word that she hears is 
leukemia and it burns

her ancestors knew the legend - if 
you make a thousand cranes
from squares of colored paper, it 
will take the pain away
with loving hands she folds them, 
six hundred fourty-four
till the morning her trmbling 
fingers can't fold any more

her friends did not forget her - 
crane after crane they made
until they reached a thousand and 
laid them upon her grave
people from everywhere gathered, 
together a prayer they said
and they wrote the words in granite 
so none can forget:

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     this is our cry (no more 
hiroshima)
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     this is our prayer (no more 
nagasaki)
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     peace in the world (peace in 
the world)