CAR FARE

CAR FARE 


Screaming for safety, I wonder

Who is on which rooftop?

Bored and picking off dogs at a refuse pile.

But no, I have never been to Najaf.

Whomever I fear has grown since,

And is no longer the teenage boy on a building in a desert. 

To whom do I beg for life?

Craven as a child who knows 

The fear of death. 

Where will it end,

Me still alive and in possibility, 

Will the fell feeling dispel itself

To make way for an unbegrudged bliss?

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