The Time of Our Tears

The people whose tears have shaken me in recent days are not few in number. Never in our lives have we known such anxiety in this expanse that is swaying between one death and another, especially when people’s money is locked up in the banks. Our country, in its details, is torn up by corruption. We are lagging behind every progress to which the world, both advanced and backward, has preceded us! Most of our children have abandoned us to the faraway. Many of us have become afraid of everything; of the bitterness of loneliness; of the treachery of disease; of having to be hospitalized… Our country takes everything while giving nothing. Some of those who were relying on their savings to face the burdens of the coming years told me that they had discontinued their health insurance. One of them said: “the country that was not able to kill us in its wars, will be killing us at the doors of hospitals”. This is the highest level of godlessness to see people, who had been loyal to their homeland, being begrudged by “their homeland” that they spend their remaining days in it with dignity! When will the time of our tears come to an end?