Ukraine. 2022. Everywhere.
another war
my first thought
quickly extinguished
in crushing awareness
war ripping ravaging
forests rivers fields
explodes and implodes
is always personal
immediate
not another
for those waking
sleepless in hunger
freezing in cutting ice
shriven in broiling sands
swollen by jungle murk
scrubbed raw to the bones
never just another war
somewhere else
else other half my heart
my soul are them determined
the maybe ninety pound
girlwoman newly rifled
stands side-by-side
in an awkward jumbled
line of resolute courage
of soft barely not children
their books scattered
now study war
grizzled veterans
insist do this not that
stay alive to kill
to stay alive
to kill to survive
to somehow live
[with what you
are about to do]
war's sour wash
pulls from my corners
Black Lives Matter
Native Lives Matter
All Lives Matter
everywhere wars
post wars centuries
occupation persecution
genocidal machinations
running under cover
in pure daylight
no wonder calloused
another war runs
a hard blanket over me
to blind deafen my bleeding heart
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