The Greatest Love
July was burning, barbed wire and dust,
Men without names, reduced to their rust.
Hunger and silence, striped cloth and skin,
But something still lived deep within.
A number stitched where a name once stood,
16670 still knew what is good.
When fear was law and mercy was gone,
One quiet faith was holding on.
This is the greatest love we know,
To walk where no one wants to go.
To give your life so another may stay,
To choose the night so one sees day.
No sword, no crown, no victory won—
Just love that says: take me instead of him.
A man was missing, the price was ten,
Chosen at random, condemned men.
A father cried out, voice torn apart:
“My wife, my children, my broken heart.”
The sun stood still on the killing ground,
No mercy anywhere to be found.
Then a step broke the deadly line,
A human act in inhuman time.
This is the greatest love we know,
To walk where no one wants to go.
To give your life so another may stay,
To choose the night so one sees day.
No sword, no crown, no victory won—
Just love that says: take me instead of him.
No anger spoken, no hatred shown,
Just a steady voice, calm as stone:
“I am a priest. I stand alone.
He has a family. Let me be gone.”
For a moment the world held its breath,
Love stood taller than death.
This is the greatest love on earth,
Not born of power, fear, or worth.
When all is lost and hope feels thin,
Love still dares to step within.
History remembers the guns and the flame—
But heaven remembers the one who gave his name.
In a place built to erase all men,
One act wrote humanity back in again.
S.
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