Child Separation Poems

A cage not of your making
your own expiration date

Your mother branded you with it
and made you wear it even to date

It was announced at family...

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I am angry.
I am angry at him,
I am angry at me,
I am angry at everything I let this be.

I am exhausted.
I am exhausted at me,
I...

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like a wind that burns your chest
we did it again
we  did it the same
again
soul made from the mother's milk soul, hold me
cover me
wrap me...

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I hear the dishes clink and clank,
And footsteps on the  floor.
Are you still there? I ask myself,
I don't know anymore.

I reach the stairs and...

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How do I thrive?
Having faith, 
Self-discovery,
Having belief.
That’s what makes me
Feel alive.
What is a life
Without growth
And full of pain?
It’s a struggle,
Like rain
When all you want
Is a...

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In my country, gangs of fiends own the night.
In my country, we lived broken lives of torment.
My family fled with little but our naked terror.
Bleeding...

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Leaving the E U
parallels being the child
of divorcing parents....

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-FIGHTING-
Greek epic poem.
Transcending for permanence.
Battle warrior
No longer around.
Life became complicated.
You are number one.
Life will greatly change.
Think about you all the time.
Never let you go.
Innocence deprived.
Staying...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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Certain memories are etched in brain,
And there shall for ever remain,
Like the day, dad bid good bye,
Never to come back again!

Life events rushed by eternal...

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My lovely girl has been taken away!
Does anybody care?God! Even care?
And today is my darling's 14th birthday,
please someone! bring back Claire! bring back my Claire!

She...

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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn...

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Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails...

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This Distance Between Us
by Michael R. Burch

This distance between us,
this vast gulf of remembrance
void of understanding,
sets us apart.

You are so far,
lost child,
weeping for consolation,
so dear...

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Be That Rock
by Michael R. Burch
 
for George Edwin Hurt Sr.
 
When I was a child
I never considered man’s impermanence,
for you were a mountain of...

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