This will be a winter,
without snow, without Christmas.
Passing through the city,
the world turns it’s back, ashamed.
It’s once proud plume deftly plucked,
the rivers in it’s canals have been sucked dry.
And souls drift it’s shallow channels,
the Greek underworld’s entrance beckoning.
Passing through the streets,
the houses blink mournfully,
their masters gone from their empty mouths,
their eyes in splinters, their hearts looted
fires and meals in their stomachs in a distant memory.
Passing over the roofs,
the stars turn their bright eyes away.
If they know what has gone on since last year,
they refuse to say, to say, to say.
Looking fearfully at the wolves,
It’s too much of a risk to ask.
The shattered mosque windows
bleed and stare blankly ahead,
If they know what has gone on…
