Day 828
Ceasefire III, Day 93
Muhammad Wissam Abu Harbid,
dead from exposure
after two months
in this world. Dead from the winter.
Dead from want of walls.
Dead from want of a roof.
Dead from want of blankets.
Dead from want of your mother’s milk.
Dead from want of formula.
Dead from want of medicine,
of a hospital, of equipment
to help you breathe.
Muhammad Wissam Abu Harbid,
whose genocide dream were you?
Whose hopes did you carry
in your small perfect hands,
your laboring heart? You are gone
to feed the grasses. Gone
with your tiny mouth
making the shapes of sucking
as you slept. Sleep now,
Muhammad Wissam: now
there is no more pain.
Now the cold cannot find you.