WHOSE DEATHS SCAR THE CENTURY

An afternoon

in the early spring,

the most recent war

has taken half a day

and more from you

today

and the lives of people

whose deaths are

yet to be quantified

into neat numbers

that give no room

for such things as identity

and all that made them

individuals

whose deaths

scar the century.

They lost everything:

Achievemements that could have been,

mundane joys and sorrows

died with each of them,

and you some hours

you would've have spent

not recounting events

but doing idle things,

scribblings

that live and die

with you.

16.-20.03.2026