The town rests beneath the sun,
its streets carrying echoes of rain.
Walls remember the flood’s embrace,
yet still they stand, quiet and strong.

Children’s laughter drifts like dust,
a fragile song against the silence.
Here, resilience is unspoken,
woven into every breath.

Mariental teaches
that silence is not absence,
but the steady pulse
of survival and belonging.

 

 

 

 

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