Day 834
Ceasefire III, Day 99
His hands were so small
they were two tiny birds
in your palm. His hair
was like the feathers of birds,
the softest down
under the wing. His mouth
was a single petal. His eyes
two beads of a necklace
you never wore, given to you
by a grandmother you loved,
destroyed in a bombing.
His eyelashes were finer
than the legs of a bee, a yellow
and black bee who flitted in summer
from flower to flower. You held him
as he sank into death. As death
took him out of your arms.
Bee petal bird. His voice
frozen hours before he was gone.
No cry from him as he went.
Everything frozen. Even
his heart, frozen mid-beat.