I've thought about her,
now ten years gone,
her obituary: Mother of Martyrs,
and how she buried sons
and still wonder.
Did she raise them to be
IEDS or did she compromise
to retcon their fatal trajectories
by saying she wove into their
lullabies, in
a voice sweeter than lines
of any poetry
that they lived but to die
for God and country?
Because they were formed under
her heart and must have once
given delight to her eyes--
but in her heart did she
determine nothing better for them lie
in all their future
than to be buried under a flag
of a place to be defined?
She just comes to mind
this day.
I still fail to understand.
There still must be a
better way.
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