The snowbound city screams in silence
Mosques without minarets
Raped by violence
Flanked by mountains awash with blood
In the screaming city, graves are hastily dug
Graves by the roadside, graves in the park
Mourners bury their dead in the dark
Cold ground embraces its children in death
Ceasefires broken, no pause for breath
City in death throes, yet life goes on
Tears wiped away, threads picked up again
A new dawn, a new day, what will it bring?
Massacre in the market place, screams of pain
High in the mountains the barrage begins
Rattle of small arms adds to the din
A child wanders lost, shock in her eyes
Hope ebbs away on a blood red tide
The snowbound city screams no more
Wasted and ruined like a haggard whore
What price peace in that poisoned snow?
Politicians pontificate
Sarajevo knows
Sarajevo and Portsmouth
January - June 1996
ESTÁS LEYENDO
Danger Close
PoesíaA short collection of modern war poetry 1995 - 2014 Highly personal, this short anthology draws on the writer's experiences as a soldier and officer of the British Army in conflict zones in Europe, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. Although, the major...
