Day 796
Ceasefire III, Day 61
Someone has written
with a marker
on the single wall
still standing
of a house
that collapsed in a bombing
the name of a man
trapped under that house,
and the date
he was trapped there:
long enough ago
so by now
he is certainly dead.
Was the writer
the man’s wife? His child?
His mother? His friend?
All we know of him
is his name
and the date that’s written.
All we know is that someone
cared enough about him
to record what he was called.
His fate. The place
he must have lived in.
His final day in the light
of this world.