Summer in a single bite
that lingers in the mouth...
There you lay,
peaceful and quiet for now...
Unhoused and unnamed,
Smothered by damp grey gauze fume...
Amidst the horror and the noise
as bullets fly and mortars sing...
Caught within these painted walls, unable to get...
On endless loops the days pass by...
I realised this morning
that the unicorn is dead...
Lazy sunshine
rains upon the...
Pedestal flame I raised you far too high
Unreachable amongst the stars above...
She stands amid the chanting mass
crushed on all sides like a pebble between...
If I should open up my heart
and mind within these words...
Time stops dead and all sounds cease.
Air thickens, cloying and almost sweet...
Piled high the boxes reach
to brush against the ceiling...