A survivors Tale

Zarifa Klepo, lived under the siege of Sarejevo for two and a half years. In the Age, Sat, 18th march, Rachel Gibson writes:

"Mrs Klepo recalls one story from that time in a halting voice. One sunny winters day, in early 1993, a friend allowed her two daughters, aged 5 and 7, outside their apartment to play witha group of chidren.

Easily visible on the white snow, the girls were murdered in a targeted burst of shelling."

This poem was written by Mrs Klepo after she arived in Australia in 1995.

Stay alive
Stay alive
You'll find a better place
stay alive
You will get a chance
Stay alive
Sounds like a fantasy
When a war is reality
Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive.

( the Age, Sat, 18th March 2006)