Day 704
Where will we go
when there’s nowhere to go?
A mother stands outside her tent
holding the hands of two
of her children. The others
are still sleeping. Yesterday
their friends in another tent
were burned alive. Yesterday
the bombs fell continuously,
collapsing so many buildings.
We were just trying
to live our lives, the mother
is saying. She tightens her grip
on her children’s hands. Overhead,
the relentless buzzing
of drones. The breath
of her children is almost
synchronized to it, as though
destruction and death
have become their other parents.