self-portrait in case of disappearance

By | 1 June 2016

i am afraid that everyone died & it did not fix
the world this was meant to be the afterlife
to the burning countries our mothers left behind
girls with fathers gone or gone missing
sistered to dark boys marked to die & our own
bodies scarved & arranged in rows on prayer mats
we go missing too & who mourns us who
falls into the gap we leave in the world

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