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Don’t Cry Mommy

“Newspaper” Poem



7-Year old Korostin

has made daily visits

to her father’s grave.

telling him she loves him,

and not to worry about his family.


“I hope you’re alive there

(In Heaven)

that you’ll never die.

That you’ll never be sick,

that it’ll be a good place for you.”


It was the worst one-day

construction accident

in the past 50 years.


Irina Cherniakova says

It was horrible to tell her two children

they had lost their father

and unimaginable to tell them

they had lost their home.


“Don’t cry mommy,

everything will be okay.”