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HALLEB
​

I saw you.

You had just been murdered.

Laying asleep next to our children
in the one room that was still left.

You were bombed again 
and you didn't even know it 
(this time)
or that you were dead

(and so were the kids)

buried in the rubble 
in the bed
against the wall not there
friends and strangers digging you out 
with hope and anger and fear...

bomb blast dust covering everyone

alive and dead
walking and dead 
living and dead

those same 9/11 white faces
those same pulverized chalk mouths

your arm sticks out 
lilting and lifeless 
(still delicate)
from a pile of cinder blocks 
I had hauled from the quarry 
to build the wall 
that crushed your skull

your last thoughts 
were just thoughts 
because you didn't know 
(this time)
that they were your last

and to know those thoughts 
that you didn't know were your last
soon became my only desire
as I, too, died

As my legs gave way
and I fell
to my knees

as I could no longer support
the full weight 
of my blinded eyes
nor the tragedy of God's late arrival
to some other place
and some other time
but clearly not here...


                                        --akm



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