Makeshift In So Many Matters

Syrian children sit during class in a barn that has been converted into a makeshift school to teach internally displaced children from areas under government control, in a rebel-held area of Daraa, in southern Syria

Persistence

in the face

of so much horror

 

Resilience

to go on,

to still seek

that which is normality

 

Desire

for more

than they have ever known

 

Steadfast

in knowing

what they want

 

Despite the chaos

of their lives