Women are Giving their Wombs for Tombs

Today is a day of prayer for peace in Syria for the Roman Catholics of my country and the world. Educating myself and my friends on the emotions felt by my sisters in similar war-torn countries is my form of prayer-in-action. I have turned to WorldPulse to hear of the horrors of war from the perspective of women -- sisters, wives, mothers, grandmothers. This is my call to action, the wailing of those who are first-person witnesses, not those like me who sit in the comfort of my home and watch the silent screams in magazines.

I found a poem called \"Syria- Rent the sky in every land\" written by Kenyaby philo Ikonya Gacheri of Kenya on March 13, 2012 at 8:30 PM. http://worldpulse.com/node/50564. This was a year and a half ago, and still the people of Syria are living in increasing terror. How is this possible in human society?

\"Women are giving their wombs for tombs.\" This is a phrase from the poem that particularly strikes me, as I often ask my sisters why we women continue bearing children with abusive beasts calling themselves humans. Is it time for women, the world over to close their wombs in protest? Would this stop war?

It is not the men who are the best war correspondents, but their pictures and words seem to be most heeded. I salute the brave women telling these war stories from their wombs. I am old. My hips are weak from work and child bearing. My old husband needs my care at home. What more can I do in this effort?