Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

Amongst The Ruins

Shadows befalling
a dark afternoon
And veiling destruction
the end coming soon

A boy and his dog
in the rubble at play
The body’s — toy soldiers
in silence they lay

Then one plane approaches
flying lower than most
Its bomb bay doors open
its payload to roast

A target that’s cross-haired
with ordnance bound
As a boy and dog play 
— where death will impound

(To All Children Of War: April, 2026)

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