Not Here
Contributed by
artwitness
on
Monday, 23rd September 2002 @ 09:40:00 PM in AEST
Topic:
SadPoetry
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In Tel Aviv,
the bomb rips out the pizzeria,
in a gasoline,
hurricane,
fireball,
of bolts and nails.
Teen flesh, fat and wet muscle,
splatter the pavement,
pound storefronts, and drip down windows,
of shops lining the street.
In seconds,
the air is still.
A damp, hard to breathe,
suspension of muggy spray carrying,
the odor of blood spiced with iron.
Across the city,
in the home,
Rose sits.
At the breakfast table,
arthritic knuckles white,
from clutching a frayed napkin.
She hears,
but doesn't listen to,
the grey ghosts that drift past her,
murmurring in the kitchen.
"The soldiers will free the camps soon,
and get my children out,
of Auschwitz."
Each day is the first,
Fifty seven years. And.
Each day is her first,
in the wait,
to hear their two voices,
calling for her,
laughing in the doorway.
Rose,
ties the weave of herself,
into a rope,
to throw over the divide into today,
but the rope never reaches,
and falls back.
Rose stares through the television,
where crews
that tape off the blast site and
hose down the blood,
are color and shape,
but no meaning.
The paper said your children died,
in 1944.
I pray the counselors can reach you,
quiet your waking nightmare.
But I'm grateful for the comfort,
that I'm not the only one,
whose rope can't reach,
recalling Betsy's words that day,
seven years ago,
"Of course we'll stay friends!"
in the wait for a voice,
I'll never hear.
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artwitness
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2002-09-23 21:40:00]
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