Strength In Defeat

fragments of shelter in ruins minute reminders of cover relentless shelling of home survival for the sake of despair invocation atomized into dust shrapnel in macerated skin he searched for resilience consulted his prayers beads relentlessly molten by fire ...and deliver us from evil and hell yet hatred and anger had torn dust onto memories and ashes he sifted through rubble and pain for remnants of dark consolation normality squashed by madness his daughter’s doll amputated at the core son’s toy cars with one spinning wheel mother’s veil shredded at her neck buried deep under sorrow in the yard a thimble refused to abandon all faith the needle’s eye narrowed his vision a crater offered help for a few graves bare hands performed dutiful homage vultures had arrived for a fine feast he found his wife’s intricate flacon containing love and lavender fragrance pulverized scent of eternal compassion devoid meaning and yet he was to live scrape forgiveness from an olive branch to acquit drones and invisible foes 08th June 2020