Day 891
The grass is beginning to grow again.
After so much rain,
is it greener now?
It pushes up from the earth, tender
sweet-tasting shoots. Then
stands firm, stands rooted
in wind, against storms that may still
come. Against bombings that will
still come. You smell it
when you wake: new life
longing for light. Will
it bring up, as it rises
from the earth’s
core, your lost days,
your lost dreams? The avenues
you walked, the voices
of those you loved? Can
whatever it is that allows
something so soft, so
pliant, to push
through hard, ravaged ground
push up with it
your small gone sons,
your laughing daughters?