veins of red dust by Reuben Woolley

these broken ……….voices
…………………………daily

…………………..try

for silence / the quiet
calls.they lost

words
………..key
for any……..further
………………move

we do not hear
the barbed songs
……………the cut

cords

bleeding

still
……..the
…………….bombs

unbreathing

shut the eyes
in this white face of me

..

For the Syrian children living and dying under the bombs in Aleppo and elsewhere.