WHILE WE WEEP

 Dedicated to little Chinneineng and all the babies back home.
May angels watch over you while you sleep....

WHILE WE WEEP

 

I look at my world

While it turns

Here now

A man,

Curses

Another, strikes

I look

At you all

Devouring,

Amused

Breathing

Alive

Triumphant

Bared teeth

Revelling,

I look

Whilst mothers,

Fathers,

Brothers weep

 

 

I look

At the screen

A coffin

So small

I cannot breathe

I don’t know

I don’t see

How

No one told you

How to unfurl that hate

Wrought in that

Abrasive

Shrill cry,

Mothers unite!

I don’t know when

How, why

They began

To control you

How you chose

The lies you buy

The so tired

So tiresome

War cries

I don’t know how

I don't know when

We were friends

And when

We weren’t

You too

Et tu?

Inverted, twisted

Distorted, betrayed

 

So now

I am here

In places

And realms

Far from home

And everyday

With the what now

The where to’s

The how can

And when

Will

This end

 

We weep

And walk

We watch

And weep

And all

I can do

All we

Can do

And all

I am

And all that

We are

Is nothing

Than

The sum

Of

Rage

And hope

While you,

While I

While we

Heart heavy

Souls weary

Weep..

 

~ Judith Vaddi