Day 692

What can we do for this
two year old girl? She weighs
what she weighed at nine months.
We have no milk for her. No meat.
No vegetables. We have
no water for her. No playground,
no toys. What is happening
to her body? What
is happening to her thoughts?
Her words? Her mother
is too weak to soothe her. To
rock her. To sing her to sleep.
Her father has lost his leg. His
work. The land he farmed.
Once he and his wife
held this tiny daughter
who looked up at them,
smiled her first smile. Who,
In their dreams for her,
could have done anything.