ALEPPO

We hear on the news
about the Syrian civil war
amid its government and rebels
and their inexcusable behavior
as politicians talk
of terror fear and war
stalking between
a breath of life,
death and strife
in an end time of the year
of the dear Jewish Savior's birth
for today I'm wishing
and remembering
as an actor
in my Original Theater
the Aleppo's references
in MacBeth and Othello
yet we cannot forget
the mass murders in Aleppo.