24/08/2025
What happens when someone is forced to carry so much pain… they can no longer cry?"
She was once a teacher, someone who loved children, who used to cry easily over the smallest things.
But after war, her tears are gone. She sees children arriving at the clinic barefoot, exhausted, and broken. Some have lost arms or legs. Others carry scars you cannot see: the silence of lost schools, lost childhoods, and lost dreams.
Her own daughter once dreamed of becoming a doctor. Now, after years without school, she says quietly: “I won’t be a doctor anymore.”
And still, the mother cannot cry. Even when her heart is breaking, even when her family suffers unbearable loss, something inside her has gone numb.
Her colleagues tell her: “One day, when it is safe, you will collapse. Because you never let yourself cry.”
It is a reminder that war does not just destroy buildings — it breaks the human spirit, quietly, piece by piece. And yet, within her silence, there is also strength: the strength to keep going, to hold others, to stand when tears will not come.
