Wednesday, November 2, 2016

during a war

by naomi shihab nye from you & yours

best wishes to you & yours
he closes the letter.

for a moment i can’t
fold it up again --
where does “yours” end?
dark eyes pleasing
what could we have done
differently?
your family,
your community,
circle of earth, we did not want,
we tried to stop,
we were not heard
by dark eyes who are dying
now. how easily they
would have welcomed us in
for coffee, serving it
in a simple room
with a radiant rug.
your friends & mine.

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