IT COULD BE ANYWHERE

To survive under oppression

is to compromise.

Only the dead

are not

collaborators;

even the men and women

in the hills

with guns.

They had to

walk past checkpoints,

not to interfere

when people

were dragged away

or lay bleeding,

they had to

keep their face obedient,

utter no word

of resistance

until the woods

liberated them.

22.10.2017