Sadako’s Cranes
Folding
Brightly colored paper
Origami cranes, and we fly
Away with them
From this world’s illusion
Power and pain
Just fall away
And soar into the sun
Of peace and joy
We invest hope our with you, child
Folding brightly colored
Paper
© 2017 david w palmer
Sadako Sasaki was only 2 the day the black rain fell over Hiroshima
Ten years later she would die from leukemia, complications of her
Exposure to that radiation. She was told if she folded 1000 origami
Cranes she could have one wish granted. She died after making 644
Of them. Her classmates folded the thousand in her memory and they
Are buried with her. Her family kept her 644. This is her memorial in Hiroshima.
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