    Women | Tuesday, November 21, 2000 - 11:34 am How do you know peace is a woman? I know, for I met her yesterday on my winding way to the world's fare. She had such a sorrowful face just like a golden flower faded before her prime. I asked her why she was so sad? She told me her baby was killed in Moqdisho, her daughter in Baydhabo and her sons in Hargeysa, Bosaaso, Kismayo,Gaalkacyo , Ethiopia, Kenya and Luuq. All the rest of her children, she said, are on the nuclear black-list of the dead , all the rest, unless the whole world understands -- that peace is a woman A thousand candles then lit in her starry eyes, and I saw -- Peace is indeed a pregnant woman, Peace is a mother. |