Bombed Out

London was still full of
fire-bombed vacant lots.
Ruins and rubble
were a kids natural playground,
the deeper the devastation
the better our play.

There was always a chance
to find a broken toy
to abuse.

Back at home,
not once did we consider
what that unidentifiable
gray soot-like substance
on our clothes contained,

but at night
our dreams were troubled
by the eerie whistling
of long dead postmen.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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